For The Love Of Port

6 2009 Taylor VP
6 2009 Fonseca VP.

My daughter is pretty lucky...

2 x Vesuvio 2000 VP
2 x Graham's 2000 VP
2 x Smith Woodhouse 2000 VP
8 x Cálem Quinta do Foz 1987 VP

3 x Sandeman 1945 VP


All won at auction last weekend.

Also bought quite some Quevedo Ports and wines (red and white Oscar's).

Well, I have a bid in on a bottle of Brizard Roma Port 1955. Never heard of this, and the price is low to reflect this. But I hope I get it as a novelty. As best I can tell (a google hit), this is a defunct UK name, probably a UK merchant bottling.

2 bottles of 1977 Rocha Colheita

1 ea. Cockburn's Special Reserve, Taylor's 1st Estate, Sandeman Founders, Broadbent Auction Reserve

Roy Hersh wrote:2 bottles of 1977 Rocha Colheita

1 ea. Cockburn's Special Reserve, Taylor's 1st Estate, Sandeman Founders, Broadbent Auction Reserve

What year were the 77's bottled in?

Andy Velebil wrote:

Roy Hersh wrote:2 bottles of 1977 Rocha Colheita

1 ea. Cockburn's Special Reserve, Taylor's 1st Estate, Sandeman Founders, Broadbent Auction Reserve

What year were the 77's bottled in?

I'm going to guess 2006, as I think that's when all of mine were bottled and from what I heard they accidentally bottled all that they had left at that time.

Great stuff... it was my first Colheita and it's still one of my favorites.

Andy, I don't know because I ordered them along with other wines on line (non-Portuguese) and have yet to receive them. That said, I still have one left from my original batch and it is from 2000 bottling.

Today I purchased 2 bottles of 1999 Smith Woodhouse LBV. I was wearing my FTLOP hat (in a wine shop) and they asked if I was in the business and they liked the hat. I gave them a card and they gave me a 15% discount for being ITB. Normally I would never go for this, but I was paying cash and bought 9 other bottles while there, so I figured it would be ok to say "yes" to a discount.

A 1991 Smith Woodhouse VP, only $58

and for the NJ ruby Taste Off next week a Cockburns Special Reserve.

1954 Ferreira
1955 Fonseca
1962 Grahams Malvedos
1962 Sandeman
1970 Niepoort

Quinta do Portal 20 year Tawny x2

Marc,

Nice lineup. What no invite?




Carl,

Did you find those at the Issaquah Costco?

Roy Hersh wrote:Carl,

Did you find those at the Issaquah Costco?

Indeed! Never seen those at our local store.

Roy Hersh wrote:2 bottles of 1977 Rocha Colheita

1 ea. Cockburn's Special Reserve, Taylor's 1st Estate, Sandeman Founders, Broadbent Auction Reserve

Andy wrote:

What year were the 77's bottled in?

I received them today and surprisingly they were from 1996 bottling. Nothing like sitting for 16 years. These had the original paper wrapped around them. Interesting and almost like Garrafeira at this point.

Roy Hersh wrote:Marc,

Nice lineup. What no invite?

Come on down and we'll open up some bottles!

3x - 1985 Dow Port ~ 2 @ $60
1x - 1985 Warres Port - 1.5L
2x - 1997 Quinta do Vesuvio

1960 Fonseca
1983 Ramos Pinto 1.5L (2)

2 x 1994 Warre VP @ $50 apiece

13 x 1/2 bottles of Croft Unfiltered LBV 2004 for £49.40 incl tax

1 bottle of 2001 Warre Traditional LBV, bottled 2005. I've drunk the filtered Warre LBV from 2001, but not the Traditional version. This will probably get opened tonight!

19 bottles of Dow's Crusted (bottled 2004) for £203