What have you opened this week?

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Taylor 10 Year Tawny (B. 2013) over the weekend.
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1997 Niepoort VP .375ml a bit ago. Has VA on the nose, will report back if it blows off or gets worse.
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1997 Niepoort -- too much VA to rate. Even after extended decant time (two+ days), the VA remained and the port was undrinkable. It was a shame since this is the second bottle of '97 in the past ten days with this condition. Let's hope the remaining 4 bottles are not marred by this problem.
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1983 Warre - a bit smelly and reductive at first but much improved after 24 hours in the decanter
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1977 Porto Rocha Colheita - bottled 1996. Should be interesting this evening to see how a 19 year old bottling shows.
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Quinta de Estanho
20 Year old Tawny. Bottled in 1995.

Very soft, and "Ladylike"
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Ferreira 20y Tawny. Delicious as always.


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San Leonardo 20 year old.
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A very cloudy and sediment filled 1977 Rocha Colheita bottled 1996. I will admit that I've not seen that much sediment in a Colheita in a very long time!
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A bottle of 1963 Warre which was ullaged by about 30%. Another example which proves it's really tough to destroy a port completely. It's a tawny, but a perfectly drinkable one.
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30 Year Old S. Leonardo; bottled 2008.
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1995 Vesuvio
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another of my House Ports, 1/2 bottle of Fonseca Bin 27 which I've mentioned before.
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Roy Hersh wrote:30 Year Old S. Leonardo; bottled 2008.
Prepping? ;)
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1991 Croft Vintage Port.
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A bottle of my house port - a half bottle of Croft 2004 LBV. It's so useful having a stack of these. If I run out of port in an evening these are so easy to open and use as cellar defenders.
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Al B. wrote:A bottle of my house port - a half bottle of Croft 2004 LBV. It's so useful having a stack of these. If I run out of port in an evening these are so easy to open and use as cellar defenders.
Same for my Fonseca Bin 27 1/2 bottles.
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1970 Croft Vintage Port. Recent purchase at auction (1/8) and happy with the QPR.
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1960 Graham's VP, cause it's thirsty Thursday so why not 8--)
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1991 Croft Vintage Port ... Again!
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