Monument vintage port , strange ebay find

Andreas Wernicke · Post by **Andreas Wernicke** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:30 pm

I bought an old bottle of " Monument, old matured vintage port" 1969 shipped by Charles Julian, London off ebay Germany
I have found no info about it anywhere, maybe someone here has seen this brand before ?

Post by **Andy Velebil** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:59 pm

Casa DeGuedes wrote:I bought an old bottle of " Monument, old matured vintage port" 1969 shipped by Charles Julian, London off ebay Germany
I have found no info about it anywhere, maybe someone here has seen this brand before ?

Can you post some pictures of the bottle please. That would help a lot.

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Andreas Wernicke · Post by **Andreas Wernicke** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:05 pm

I hope that helps

Eric Menchen · Post by **Eric Menchen** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:45 pm

That doesn't help me, as my work website filtering blocks that site as suspicious.
You can upload them directly here to FTLOP. In the web interface, below the edit box for your post, click the "Upload attachment" tab ...

Andreas Wernicke · Post by **Andreas Wernicke** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:55 pm

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Post by **Andy Velebil** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:16 pm

Weird the neck label has a year so small and what appears to be offset. Almost like it was part of something else. Perhaps a range of years??? Or perhaps it was a bottled in date??

It appears to be a London bottler who’s probably bottled their own mix of things. Pure guess though based on the label lacking info.

What is odd is the brown glass for that time period.

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Al B. · Post by **Al B.** » Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:19 am

The Monument in London is a well known landmark in the area formally known as the City of London, it commemorates the great fire of London in 1666. My guess is that this is a bottle of vintage port bottled in 1969, perhaps late bottled in 1969 since the label describes it as "Old Matured" so effectively what we would describe today as a colheita, but probably from a single vintage since the position of the date on the neck label leads me to believe that there is another vintage date missing.

Charles H Julian Ltd has been around since the 1920s and still exists today so Andy's assumption that this is a London bottling under the merchant's own name seems a likely explanation. It could well be a blend of shippers or could equally be a single vintage port.

Tom Archer · Post by **Tom Archer** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:13 pm

This may be unfair, but the mantra 'fat label - thin wine' might apply here.

I wouldn't pay top dollar for this - but you never know...!

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