I knew you are a fan of Vesuvio like myself. I don't have so much cellared to be honest. Just a case of the 1997 and 2015 vintages. The thing is that as Symington took over and made their first VP with the house in 1989 there isn't really much mature Vesuvio a part for exactly the 1989 which is quite developed and full of Douro bake and preserved fruit. Else you need to be really lucky and find earlier VPs from Pre-Symington.Eric Menchen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:41 amThere is plenty of Vesuvio in the cellar, but I've scaled back my buying of young VP since the 2011s came out. This was a 6-pack for sale at auction at half the price of what I paid for 2011 Quinta do Vesuvio, so I couldn't pass that up.
I agree on your point on buying younger VP and even with my, for this forum, younger age of 39 I need to keep it in mind. As I prefer to drink my VPs from top producers from around the 35 year mark and older I wont be touching the 2015's until 2050. At which point I will be 69 years old. So really I shouldn't buy anything older than 2011 vintage for my own drinking. For my son it is an entirely different discussion which is why I got him a case of 2018, his birth year .