What Port(s) have you purchased this week?

[Glenn E.]

3 x 2003 Quinta do Noval VP on a clearance sale.

Love ‘03 Noval!

I've never had any of this in my cellar and the clearance price was ridiculous, so I bought 3. I'll try one in a few weeks.

I'll be interested to hear how they're doing. I bought 14-15 of them about 12-13 years ago when (IIRC) the importer either went out of business or they changed importers, so there was a fire sale on these at $36-$39 each.

[Eric Menchen]

I'll be interested to hear how they're doing. I bought 14-15 of them about 12-13 years ago when (IIRC) the importer either went out of business or they changed importers, so there was a fire sale on these at $36-$39 each.

I picked up 6 from Atlantic Wine back then. I was planning to hold them for longer, but I'm curious too.

[Mike J. W.]

Love ‘03 Noval!

I've never had any of this in my cellar and the clearance price was ridiculous, so I bought 3. I'll try one in a few weeks.

I'll be interested to hear how they're doing. I bought 14-15 of them about 12-13 years ago when (IIRC) the importer either went out of business or they changed importers, so there was a fire sale on these at $36-$39 each.

What a great deal! Today, you can't even get a high quality 20 y.o. Tawny for that price.

[Moses Botbol]

6 pack of 2016 Dow Vintage 375's at $36 each.

Seemed like an OK price, but nothing to go crazy over. Don't own any half bottles of VP so thought this would be a fun start.

[Andy Velebil]

Love ‘03 Noval!

I've never had any of this in my cellar and the clearance price was ridiculous, so I bought 3. I'll try one in a few weeks.

I'll be interested to hear how they're doing. I bought 14-15 of them about 12-13 years ago when (IIRC) the importer either went out of business or they changed importers, so there was a fire sale on these at $36-$39 each.

They changed importers here in the States and the old one blew them out at crazy cheap prices. I bought a boat load.

[Monique Heinemans.]

I've never had any of this in my cellar and the clearance price was ridiculous, so I bought 3. I'll try one in a few weeks.

I'll be interested to hear how they're doing. I bought 14-15 of them about 12-13 years ago when (IIRC) the importer either went out of business or they changed importers, so there was a fire sale on these at $36-$39 each.

What a great deal! Today, you can't even get a high quality 20 y.o. Tawny for that price.

I bought some 2003 Noval two years ago at € 50, which I think was a good price. At least here in the Netherlands.
But $ 39.... That's only € 35... wow, well done!

[John M.]

Quick stop in a B&M...got a couple of basic Ports for drinking now

2 x Q do Portal 10 Year White
1 x 2011 Q do Portal LBV

[Mike J. W.]

1 x Quinta do Bom Retiro 20 yo Tawny
1 x Ferreira Duque de Bragança 20 yo Tawny
2 x 2003 Croft VP
1 x 1982 Champalimaud Quinta do Cotto VP
1 x 1992 Quinta do Infantado VP
1 x 2007 Quinta do Noval VP

[Jonathan S]

2000 Fonseca (375 mL)
2003 Graham (375 mL)
2003 Fonseca (750 mL)
2016 Quinta do Vesuvio (750 mL) (x2)

[John M.]

At Auction

2 x Kopke 10 YR
1 x Bodegas Yuste 'Aurora' Amontillado Sherry

Almost embarrassed by how little I paid...and I drove by Acker's warehouse and picked them up today so no shipping (plus other Ports!).

[Al B.]

15 bottles of 2000 BoB Vintage Port from Sainsbury supermarket for £20 per bottle. Not sure what it is, but its from Symington Family Estates and it tastes damn good.

Bought them two weeks ago an only got 13 left. Clearly making an extremely good cellar defender.

[Glenn E.]

7 x 1977 Gould Campbell Vintage Port... magnums!
Also 5 x 1985 Gould Campbell 750ml from the same store. Cleared them out of everything they had.

It's not often that you find magnums for less than 2x the 750 price.

[Mike J. W.]

7 x 1977 Gould Campbell Vintage Port... magnums!
Also 5 x 1985 Gould Campbell 750ml from the same store. Cleared them out of everything they had.

It's not often that you find magnums for less than 2x the 750 price.

I wish I had stores like that around me.

[Eric Menchen]

I wish I had stores like that around me.

Bah, quit your complaining. I order from stores in NJ because I don't have stores like you have.

[Glenn E.]

7 x 1977 Gould Campbell Vintage Port... magnums!
Also 5 x 1985 Gould Campbell 750ml from the same store. Cleared them out of everything they had.

It's not often that you find magnums for less than 2x the 750 price.

I wish I had stores like that around me.

It was on the internets. There's not much in Seattle other than remaining stocks of Kopke after the importer moved operations to the East coast.

[Mike J. W.]

I wish I had stores like that around me.

Bah, quit your complaining. I order from stores in NJ because I don't have stores like you have.

The stores are okay, but most of their stuff is newer. Hard to find older stuff. There are a few good stores in the Ironbound section of Newark because of the long-standing Portuguese population, but the prices are so-so. Those stores though don't have an internet presence.

[Eric Menchen]

1x 2011 Quinta do Crasto LBV
1x 1957 Kopke Colheita

[Moses Botbol]

6 pack of Maynards 20 Year Tawny at $23 a bottle.

I picked up 6 bottles of the Maynards 10 year for under $20. I want to say $16 each?

Maynards is the best deal in tawny available. All are quite generous is what they say is a 10-30 year tawny.

[Thomas V]

Haven't bought any port in like 2 months, arrgggghhh A lot of still wine and champagne, but no port.

I think I need to spoil myself to something nice and mature. Something from the 80's or older and VP naturally. Would would you recommend? Within like the range 100-150$.

[Andy Velebil]

Haven't bought any port in like 2 months, arrgggghhh A lot of still wine and champagne, but no port.

I think I need to spoil myself to something nice and mature. Something from the 80's or older and VP naturally. Would would you recommend? Within like the range 100-150$.

How come?