Has anybody heard news of the Nacional Colheita project?

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Has anybody heard news of the Nacional Colheita project?

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If so, please do share. 8--)
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I have heard Christian drop little teasers into conversations about perhaps releasing a Noval Nacional colheita in future years. I have no idea whether he is holding stocks of Nacional in barrel to allow them to mature slowly. There are undeclared years of Nacional in bottle (for example the 1999 and 2004). Perhaps there are also undeclared years still in barrel, there was a big gap between vintage Nacional declarations in 2004 and 2011...
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I have heard it on the grapevine that the 1931 and 1963 Nacional Colheitas will only be available in the UK [bye2.gif]
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There is a you tube video of Christian Seely discussing the 2011 VP's. In it, he mentions a possible Nacional Colheita to be released at some time. I forget the vintages.
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Well, if they want to sell it as a colheita with a year on the the bottle, the stocks would have had to been declared to the IV(D)P, right? Are those records open or protected as trade secrets?
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