What have you opened this week?
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Taylor 10 Year Tawny (B. 2013) over the weekend.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
1997 Niepoort VP .375ml a bit ago. Has VA on the nose, will report back if it blows off or gets worse.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
1997 Niepoort -- too much VA to rate. Even after extended decant time (two+ days), the VA remained and the port was undrinkable. It was a shame since this is the second bottle of '97 in the past ten days with this condition. Let's hope the remaining 4 bottles are not marred by this problem.
Re: What have you opened this week?
1983 Warre - a bit smelly and reductive at first but much improved after 24 hours in the decanter
Re: What have you opened this week?
1977 Porto Rocha Colheita - bottled 1996. Should be interesting this evening to see how a 19 year old bottling shows.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Quinta de Estanho
20 Year old Tawny. Bottled in 1995.
Very soft, and "Ladylike"
20 Year old Tawny. Bottled in 1995.
Very soft, and "Ladylike"
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Ferreira 20y Tawny. Delicious as always.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
San Leonardo 20 year old.
Re: What have you opened this week?
A very cloudy and sediment filled 1977 Rocha Colheita bottled 1996. I will admit that I've not seen that much sediment in a Colheita in a very long time!
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Re: What have you opened this week?
A bottle of 1963 Warre which was ullaged by about 30%. Another example which proves it's really tough to destroy a port completely. It's a tawny, but a perfectly drinkable one.
Re: What have you opened this week?
30 Year Old S. Leonardo; bottled 2008.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
1995 Vesuvio
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Re: What have you opened this week?
another of my House Ports, 1/2 bottle of Fonseca Bin 27 which I've mentioned before.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Prepping?Roy Hersh wrote:30 Year Old S. Leonardo; bottled 2008.

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Re: What have you opened this week?
1991 Croft Vintage Port.
Re: What have you opened this week?
A bottle of my house port - a half bottle of Croft 2004 LBV. It's so useful having a stack of these. If I run out of port in an evening these are so easy to open and use as cellar defenders.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Same for my Fonseca Bin 27 1/2 bottles.Al B. wrote:A bottle of my house port - a half bottle of Croft 2004 LBV. It's so useful having a stack of these. If I run out of port in an evening these are so easy to open and use as cellar defenders.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
1970 Croft Vintage Port. Recent purchase at auction (1/8) and happy with the QPR.
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Re: What have you opened this week?
1960 Graham's VP, cause it's thirsty Thursday so why not 

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Re: What have you opened this week?
1991 Croft Vintage Port ... Again!