What Port(s) have you purchased this week?

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Glenn E. wrote:I finally found a reasonable source in the US, so ordered 2 bottles of the Taylor 325th Anniversary Limited Edition Tawny. $32 list which still comes to less than $40/bottle including shipping. For the price of an inexpensive 20-yr old, why not give it a shot?
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Maurice Fitzhugh wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:I finally found a reasonable source in the US, so ordered 2 bottles of the Taylor 325th Anniversary Limited Edition Tawny. $32 list which still comes to less than $40/bottle including shipping. For the price of an inexpensive 20-yr old, why not give it a shot?
Do you mind sharing where you found them?
Via an internet search - Atlas Wine Sales. They're in Portland, so ground shipping to Seattle is both reasonably weather-safe and quick.
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6X Kopke Quinta S. Luiz 1992 VP
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Glenn E. wrote:
Maurice Fitzhugh wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:I finally found a reasonable source in the US, so ordered 2 bottles of the Taylor 325th Anniversary Limited Edition Tawny. $32 list which still comes to less than $40/bottle including shipping. For the price of an inexpensive 20-yr old, why not give it a shot?
Do you mind sharing where you found them?
Via an internet search - Atlas Wine Sales. They're in Portland, so ground shipping to Seattle is both reasonably weather-safe and quick.
... and they just emailed me to say they're out of stock and they cancelled the order. :mad:
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Picked up a couple of 1960 VP's in England which I will take back home. Quinta do Noval and Croft, with an extra Noval for a friend who is another '60 boy.

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3 bottles of 1970 Niepoort for $100 each (the last bottles). I thought that was a good deal, but already have near a case of it already... Can one have too much of such a colheita? It's been years since I had one.
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Moses Botbol wrote:3 bottles of 1970 Niepoort for $100 each (the last bottles). I thought that was a good deal, but already have near a case of it already... Can one have too much of such a colheita? It's been years since I had one.
That's a colheita? I'd love to try that some time. And yeah, that's a great price!
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Glenn E. wrote:
Moses Botbol wrote:3 bottles of 1970 Niepoort for $100 each (the last bottles). I thought that was a good deal, but already have near a case of it already... Can one have too much of such a colheita? It's been years since I had one.
That's a colheita? I'd love to try that some time. And yeah, that's a great price!
Yes, colheita. I don't have any of that in a VP. I am not sure if the bottling date is different between the ones I currently own and the just purchased ones.
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I've just acquired 3 bottles of Warre 1969 LBV, bottled 1975. The previous oldest Warre LBV I've seen / owned / drunk was from 1974.
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Al B. wrote:I've just acquired 3 bottles of Warre 1969 LBV, bottled 1975. The previous oldest Warre LBV I've seen / owned / drunk was from 1974.
Wow, that sounds neat. How was the '74?
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At auction 2 x Mags of 1977 Smith Woodhouse.
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Moses Botbol wrote:
Al B. wrote:I've just acquired 3 bottles of Warre 1969 LBV, bottled 1975. The previous oldest Warre LBV I've seen / owned / drunk was from 1974.
Wow, that sounds neat. How was the '74?
Really beautiful; full of sweet, spiced fruit.
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Had a 1994 Taylor Vintage at a restaurant for $40 a bottle. Pretty good deal in my opinion and was a hit with my co-workers.
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Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1994 Taylor Vintage at a restaurant for $40 a bottle. Pretty good deal in my opinion and was a hit with my co-workers.
You had a 0.75 bottle of Taylor's 1994 VP at a restaurant for 40 USD for the whole bottle? I hope you bought all their bottles at that price?
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Thomas V wrote:
Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1994 Taylor Vintage at a restaurant for $40 a bottle. Pretty good deal in my opinion and was a hit with my co-workers.
You had a 0.75 bottle of Taylor's 1994 VP at a restaurant for 40 USD for the whole bottle? I hope you bought all their bottles at that price?
Yes, I would expect to pay at least $100 for one of those at retail, and I would double that for a restaurant.
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Thomas V wrote:
Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1994 Taylor Vintage at a restaurant for $40 a bottle. Pretty good deal in my opinion and was a hit with my co-workers.
You had a 0.75 bottle of Taylor's 1994 VP at a restaurant for 40 USD for the whole bottle? I hope you bought all their bottles at that price?
Yes the whole 750 ml bottle. This is a restaurant, not a liquor store... They don't sell wine "to go".
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Eric Menchen wrote:
Thomas V wrote:
Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1994 Taylor Vintage at a restaurant for $40 a bottle. Pretty good deal in my opinion and was a hit with my co-workers.
You had a 0.75 bottle of Taylor's 1994 VP at a restaurant for 40 USD for the whole bottle? I hope you bought all their bottles at that price?
Yes, I would expect to pay at least $100 for one of those at retail, and I would double that for a restaurant.
I'd post a photo of the wines we had, but photobucket no longer is allowing me post pictures to forums... We had 14 bottles of wine and port, along with Taylor my favorites from the night were

'69 Inglenook Cab for $40
'73 Chasse-Spleen for $30
'84 Mas de Dumas Gassac for $45
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Eric Menchen wrote:
Thomas V wrote:
Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1994 Taylor Vintage at a restaurant for $40 a bottle. Pretty good deal in my opinion and was a hit with my co-workers.
You had a 0.75 bottle of Taylor's 1994 VP at a restaurant for 40 USD for the whole bottle? I hope you bought all their bottles at that price?
Yes, I would expect to pay at least $100 for one of those at retail, and I would double that for a restaurant.
Yeah, at least $100. Probably more like $150. Those (and the Fonseca) are pricey.

Moses just gets the most ridiculous prices...
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Glenn E. wrote:Yeah, at least $100. Probably more like $150. Those (and the Fonseca) are pricey.

Moses just gets the most ridiculous prices...
Was the first time trying it as well. I was expecting it to be bigger than it was. Still youngish, but I don't see it as a bottle that will age as well as lets say an '85 Fonseca or even '70 Taylor...
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Moses Botbol wrote:Was the first time trying it as well. I was expecting it to be bigger than it was. Still youngish, but I don't see it as a bottle that will age as well as lets say an '85 Fonseca or even '70 Taylor...
Huh. Interesting. I haven't had it for a while, but it has usually seemed like a 50-year monster to me. That said, we had a bad bottle at the '94 horizontal in 2014 (89 pts), and my only TN in the TNDB was at Andy's (96 pts) and had me confused about it possibly being early maturing... so who knows?
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