Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
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Moses Botbol
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Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
Ever see this bottle before? I know the pictures are crappy. I am waiting to get more info on it and may pick it up this weekend. He states it has been stored in a wine cellar.
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
What is he selling it or describing it as?
And what is on the label, as it's hard to read?
And what is on the label, as it's hard to read?
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Moses Botbol
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
Selling it.Andy Velebil wrote:What is he selling it or describing it as?
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
Smart a**Moses Botbol wrote:Selling it.Andy Velebil wrote:What is he selling it or describing it as?
Let me clarify....what has the seller told you about the bottle thus far? And how much money is he asking for said bottle?
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Moses Botbol
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
He said his dad has had for 65 years. He wants $200, but I think it's worth more like $75Andy Velebil wrote:Smart a**Moses Botbol wrote:Selling it.Andy Velebil wrote:What is he selling it or describing it as?
Let me clarify....what has the seller told you about the bottle thus far? And how much money is he asking for said bottle?
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
This isn't port - it's Puro Velho made by Caves Do Casolinho in the Vinhos Verdes region, and I think it's a white wine.
Drinkable? Possibly - possibly not..!
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Drinkable? Possibly - possibly not..!
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Moses Botbol
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
Yes, that is too what I think it is. He sent a better picture that is still lousy and it appear not to be port. Oh well...Tom Archer wrote:This isn't port - it's Puro Velho made by Caves Do Casolinho in the Vinhos Verdes region, and I think it's a white wine.
Drinkable? Possibly - possibly not..!
Tom
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Re: Odd Looking 1957 Vintage Bottle
I believe that I actually have a bottle of this very same wine. We inherited a house in porto with a wine cellar. When clearing out/tidying up the cellar I found a bottle very similar to this one more or less discarded among some empty bottles. I remember three things about the bottle: It has a very unusual shape, it was dated back to the '50s (and I think it may well be 1957), and frankly I found the bottle a bit unnerving. The bottle was much, much dustier than anything else in the cellar, and with its strange shape and having apparantly been discarded I was a bit spooked by it. I'm sure that my bottle was table wine.Moses Botbol wrote:Ever see this bottle before? I know the pictures are crappy.
Can't give any more details unfortunately - the bottle is in Porto and I am in London!