I'm with Andy on this one. I absolutely love my mature VP and - budget allowing - would drink 40 year old VP most days.
However, I also enjoy the occasional young fruit bomb - the younger the better - and the occasional knock out teenager. The Vesuvio 1994 is very hard to resist today even though it will be an even better wine in 10, 20 and maybe 30 years time.
I don't know anyone here on this Forum who would rather drink a 2003 Quinta do Noval than a 1931 Noval for example
And that's hardly a fair comparison now. The 2003 QdN is a great wine, but virtually undrinkable when you go back to it from the 1931 QdN (or any good, old QdN) because of the difference in tannins.
Quick, lock up your bottles, rally the troops, man the guns, blow the bridges - Jay and his mates are on their way over in a Viking Longboat to rape and pilage our cellars
You like youngsters and the occasional knock out teenager!!!
Would you like to walk this way, and I have to remind you, 'You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence, if you......
Quick, lock up your bottles, rally the troops, man the guns, blow the bridges - Jay and his mates are on their way over in a Viking Longboat to rape and pilage our cellars
Derek
Sorry Derek, Alan, Alex, Alex & Tom:
I will be joining Jay and the North-American-Posse on this excursion!
The ports I see for sale in New York are far too young. Pre-1994 is rare; even the huge-volume 1985 vintage is only in the poshest of wine shops. And America, being large and rich, can — by accident, as it were — drink a lot of that which I want to drink in my dotage. Even a few bottles each of the 2003s quickly becomes a lot of wasted drink.
Meanwhile, experts like Roy (who are few, whether or not rich) should be encouraged to monitor the progress of wines, to inform the wider population when things are coming into their prime.
Meanwhile, “pillage” makes sense. I hope the other verb is there only for flamboyant effect.
