1931 Quinta do Noval bottling variation

[Shawn Denkler]

I've been lucky enough to have had the 1931 Quinta do Noval at least ten times. A few of those times the English bottler was known and I feel the variation is quite dramatic. Does anybody feel that one bottler is better or worse that another back then?

[Al B.]

I've seen bottlings by Sandeman, Loeb, Fearon Block, Justerini & Brooks and Dolamore.

I've not been lucky enough to try any of them often enough to be able to form an opinion as to whether any particular bottling is better than any other

[Shawn Denkler]

I've seen Sandeman, Fearon Block, Justerini & Brooks and Averys on the 31 QN. The Sandeman I did not get to try but they seem to be a quality bottler based in Scotland I believe. I've heard they have no relation to the port Sandemans. I own quite a few old ports bottled by Fearon Block but know nothing about them.

[John Vachon]

Just had this once in the 70's from Bassin's-they had it at $50.

With all the hype hard to perform-It was great but it reminded me of a very good 1966.

IMOP at the same time the 1945 Croft at $30 blew it out.