What have you opened this week?

[Andy Velebil]

1931 Quinta do Noval VP

[Moses Botbol]

1931 Quinta do Noval VP

Nothing special, just a Thursday night, right?

[Marc J.]

2007 Dow
2007 Graham
2007 Warre
2007 Taylor
2007 Fonseca
2007 Quinta do Noval
2007 Burmester

[Al B.]

1931 Quinta do Noval VP

Which you opened on what just happens to be the first day of April

[Al B.]

A bottle of Taylor 1963 that had to be opened when the neck sheared away from the shoulders as I was pulling it out of the rack!

[Al B.]

Had a couple of friends round today and opened 1970 Gould Campbell, a magnum of 1977 Smith Woodhouse, 1988 Smith Woodhouse Madalena, 1965 Graham's Malvedos, 1963 Dow and 1945 Croft.

[dom carter]

@ AL B

Can i be your friend, as they seem to drink some fine wines?!!


Purchased to replaced a corked LBV : Niepoort Crusted Port (bottled 2007, it 's a blend of 2003 & 2005 grapes)

[Lamont Huxley]

@ AL B

Can i be your friend, as they seem to drink some fine wines?!!

I second that Dom!

[Daniel R.]

2004 Noval LBV
1998 Dow's Quinta do Bonfim VP

[Roy Hersh]

1963 Taylor VP
1966 Morreira Colheita
1967 C. da Silva "Rui Paula" Colheita
Warre's 20 year old Tawny Port
San Leonardo 30 year old Tawny Port

[Al B.]

@ AL B

Can i be your friend, as they seem to drink some fine wines?!!

I wish it was always as good as this weekend, but sadly most of my drinking is much more ordinary.

[Andy Velebil]

Had a couple of friends round today and opened 1970 Gould Campbell, a magnum of 1977 Smith Woodhouse, 1988 Smith Woodhouse Madalena, 1965 Graham's Malvedos, 1963 Dow and 1945 Croft.

A splendid evening and that was just the first day of our incredible long weekend of Port sampling

[Marc J.]

1972 Dow

[Andy Velebil]

1972 Dow

having recently had a couple of other 1972's, how was it?

[Roy Hersh]

A long weekend of Port and Madeira ahead. Tonight's kick off was my bottle of 1963 Quinta do Noval Nacional. It was a very pleasant VP that was a fun way to start the debauchery that will ensue for the next 72 hours. This will certainly be one of the youngsters, as it is definitely the youngest of four bottles I brought with me.

[Marc J.]

The 1972 Dow was quite nice. Lots of ripe fruit on the nose (which I sensed was beginning to dry out) and a number of delicate flavors on the palate. Although I must say that the finish was a bit on the short side. Clearly this was fully mature without any possibility of future improvement. I'd say that this wine might have another 5 years ahead of it. Without a doubt this is the finest '72 that I've had to date.

[Roy Hersh]

1896 Dow VP
1934 Quinta do Noval VP

[Roy Hersh]

Last night was fun too. We began with an old Bdx and a great older bottle of Cristal.

Moving on to Ports:

1924 Taylor VP
1962 Malvedos VP
1963 Fonseca VP
1966 Dow VP

Then came the Madeiras going back in time to 1795. What a weekend.

[Russ K]

I rarely have gotten to post in this section, lots to collect, not ready for drinking, but I broke down and bought some tawnies...

1995 Quinta Do Noval Cohleita.

[Gary Richardson]

2005 Graham's LBV

-- Gary