What have you opened this week?

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Dries V.
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Pocas Vintage 2003. Opened last Saturday and has improved day by day [shrug.gif]
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Porto Rocha Glorious 50th Anniversary to share with my parents... for their 50th anniversary. :D

'twas excellent - best bottle of it that I've had!
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2007 Quinta do Crasto Reserva Old Vine Douro and a 2003 Quevedo LBV Port
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Smith Woodhouse 1977 - just wonderful juice
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1977 Dow - Incredible stuff!!
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1985 Dow's. Very good, and has another 20+ years left in it.

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1941, 1951, 1961, 1981 Kopke Colheita (notice the pattern) and 30 year old Ramos Pinto
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Roy Hersh wrote:1941, 1951, 1961, 1981 Kopke Colheita (notice the pattern) and 30 year old Ramos Pinto
they are all from the 1900's [help.gif] :lol: :lol: Just kidding of course :P
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Roy Hersh wrote:1941, 1951, 1961, 1981 Kopke Colheita (notice the pattern) and 30 year old Ramos Pinto
What happened to the 1971? :D
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For home quaffing, bottle #42 for 2010 - a badly ullaged Taylor '55..

..despite that, showing very well!

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Tom Archer wrote:For home quaffing, bottle #42 for 2010 - a badly ullaged Taylor '55..

..despite that, showing very well!

Tom
Was this part of the bottles Derek found at some crazy cheap price? Glad it still showed well.
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Was this part of the bottles Derek found at some crazy cheap price? Glad it still showed well
No. Part of a stash of nine rough bottles that I picked up on a shot-to-nothing bid at Christies earlier this year.

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Last night was a 2004 Quinta do Crasto Vinha da Ponte Douro wine. Still got a couple glasses left for dinner tonight, and so I can see how it's evolved on day 2.
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A bottle of Graham's Crusted bottled 2002 - very tasty
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Quinta do Portal 20 Year Old Tawny Port. I'm giving this one some air time to see if that helps. Not that it's bad, but the style reminds me of Moreira and those seem to perform best with LOTS of air time.
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1983 Graham's and 1937 Noval Colheita. Both openend for a select group at my company's holiday party. Just the latest step in my attempt to convert more people :-)

One of my employees was down to his last few drops of the 1937 ... just touching the Port to his lips and then licking it off in order to prolong the experience. Then, my wife reached over and drank his last 1/2 ounce. I thought he was going to kill her.

My boss said that, while the Port was delicious, she could not believe that she was drinking something that went into a barrel before WWII.

Overall, a success.

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Dow 1977, unfortunately my last bottle :(
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Ferreira 2000 LBV
Ferreira 10 year Quinta do Porto
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Over dinner
Niepoort 66
Graham 66
Morgan 63 -sadly the morgan was a pop and pour as we ran out!
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Chris G wrote:Over dinner
Niepoort 66
Graham 66
Morgan 63 -sadly the morgan was a pop and pour as we ran out!
Chris,
Great to hear from you, I see all is well, at least on the drinking front [cheers.gif] did you finally get through all that Niepoort Rose, which was quite good...

This past week I opened a lot of Quevedo;
2008 Quevedo Douro
1996 Quevedo Colheita
2003 Quevedo LBV
NV Quevedo Special Reserve (which held up great over the course of a week)
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