What have you opened this week?
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1980 Tuke Holdsworth for this evening's celebration. Likely just a glass each after two other bottles, but that will give me a chance to see how it opens up tomorrow too.
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So I was given a tax refund in my first pay packet to make up for my lack of income over the last half of 2014 - so;dom carter wrote:Thanks - just got to wait another 3 weeks for the first pay check! Maybe some port will get purchased then (after bills of course!!)Andy Velebil wrote:Congrats on the new job!!dom carter wrote:Due to 6 months unemployment; funds were such that Port had taken a back seat, but as it's Xmas and i restarted employment 3 weeks ago - Port was in order!
Grahams (bottled 2002) Crusted Port; and i must say very drinkable for under $22 i paid for it!
Crusted Port, i Believe, doesn't get the limelight it deserves given the amount of LBV drunk (i'm as guilty as the next person!!!), but these young ports mixed together seem to be greater than the sum of their parts in this bottle.
Taylors 2001 Vargellas (SQ)VP was purchased and has just been opened
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2007 Quinta do Noval
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Dows Crusted, bottled 1999.
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Ferreira 1985 VP, lined up first on death row for tomorrow at my uncles birthday.
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I'm still deciding on what to open if/when we win today, sealing a Super Bowl berth.

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1984 Kopke Colheita, bottled 2013, 375ml. Enjoying this out on our deck on an unusual 67°F Colorado January day with a Cuban.
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A celebratory and preparatory GC85. The cork is nearly clean, though, so I'm worried that it has been stored upright for most of its life. So far, so good though. Looks and smells fine.
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Or the Sym's recorked it before sending it out as a late release, which they are doing with their older stocks.Glenn E. wrote:A celebratory and preparatory GC85. The cork is nearly clean, though, so I'm worried that it has been stored upright for most of its life. So far, so good though. Looks and smells fine.
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It's showing really well, so that's probably the answer. Even so, it's a REALLY clean cork.Andy Velebil wrote:Or the Sym's recorked it before sending it out as a late release, which they are doing with their older stocks.Glenn E. wrote:A celebratory and preparatory GC85. The cork is nearly clean, though, so I'm worried that it has been stored upright for most of its life. So far, so good though. Looks and smells fine.
This was one of the ones I ordered from WTSO, btw. I have a different bottle slated for the tasting this weekend, but this one is showing so nicely that I may decide to open another WTSO bottle instead.
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Quevedo 40 YO Tawny 

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Jealous!!Gerwin de Graaf wrote:Quevedo 40 YO Tawny

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Friday night Calls for a Niepoort. This time an old Blansec.
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I opened a Fonseca 1992 on Monday - deep and dark but nice and tasty. Good port.
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1976 Krohn Colheita (bottled in 2013)
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Dow 2003 with some aged Stilton for 2night. Will report back.
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Another bottle of 2007 Quinta do Noval
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Opend an old Taylor Tawny last night. Nothing to talk about. But I just decanted this old Tawny from Real Vinicola.
Whao....although the cork was floating in the bottle, the Port is really great....Dark Brown and the taste is just both round and deep.
Whao....although the cork was floating in the bottle, the Port is really great....Dark Brown and the taste is just both round and deep.
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Was the capsule the only thing sealing it? If so I've only seen that happen once with an old bottle of Bordeaux I was given.Allan Engelsted Laurents wrote:Opend an old Taylor Tawny last night. Nothing to talk about. But I just decanted this old Tawny from Real Vinicola.
Whao....although the cork was floating in the bottle, the Port is really great....Dark Brown and the taste is just both round and deep.
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