1 x 1966 Warre's vintage port
1 x 1995 Fonseca Guimaraens vintage port

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Since I'll never sell a bottle of Port, I have a hard time characterizing my Port purchases as "investments".Gustavo Devesas wrote: ...Port investment...
Same for me Peter, I totally understand you. What I mean with investment is buying at the right time, place, condition and at a challenging price. We all know that the fact that fine wine market had seemed impressively impervious to the hurricane blowing through the financial markets for most of last year, it clearly could not remain immune indefinitely. For example, wine shops and retailers in Porto are looking to liquidate their wine holdings: merchants had seen the writing on the wall and had already begun to empty their inventories. Distressed sellers and restaurants also started offloading, while a number of wine funds found themselves on the receiving end of growing numbers of redemptions - this means it's the right time for the consumers to invest as Al B. made with all those 82 bottles of 375ml LBVs.Peter W. Meek wrote:Since I'll never sell a bottle of Port, I have a hard time characterizing my Port purchases as "investments".Gustavo Devesas wrote: ...Port investment...
I consider it an investment in my future happiness. And like all investments, I want to buy low and maximize payoff, which in this case is not a monetary payoff, but a payoff to myself.Peter W. Meek wrote:Since I'll never sell a bottle of Port, I have a hard time characterizing my Port purchases as "investments".
LOL... that's exactly the feeling I had when I purchased my two bottles! I needed them to complete my "Roy's 12" set, but was really afraid that I'd just be throwing money down the TCA-oilet.Eric Menchen wrote:On the other hand, this week I bought a 1983 Cockburn, so that's more like playing the lottery. A case was available, but I'm not into high stakes gambling, so I just bought a single ticket.
Kinda figured that would be the result at that price. If not I would have bought 3 cases just for a daily drinkerEric Menchen wrote: I also ordered a case of 2007 Delaforce from Raeder's, but at $11.99 each I expect to get an e-mail telling me it was a pricing mistake. Update - cancelled.
Never ever give up, only quitters give upEric Menchen wrote:Multiple times when I suspected a pricing mistake I've sent an e-mail to confirm the price, but no one ever answers. So now I just submit the order and hope. Maybe one day I'll get lucky, or maybe one day I'll just give up this exercise.
Favorite t-shirt/bumper sticker: "Rehab is for Quitters."Andy Velebil wrote:Never ever give up, only quitters give up