DALVA 1952 Golden White -3500 bottles left and counting!

Gustavo Devesas · Post by **Gustavo Devesas** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:04 pm

There's no better topic to celebrate my 50th post here!!!

Please don't start to make a garage sell or even to sell all the house and wife etc etc...to book speciall flights for Porto...

:lol

This is now what we are calling here, a RED WARNING now, no more a orange one, friends!!!

So enoug of cheap text, I 'm writting you my friends to inform you that the precious one, the beauty of my eyes, the special one, the queen, is disapearing!!!

Like it happened with Quinta da Romaneira stock of old Colheitas (I keep my 3 bottles of 83 at home in the safest place here!!!), the stock of DALVA 1952 GW is now just 3500 bottles wich started today are available half in VINOLOGIA

(Of course!) and at El Corte Ingles.
So now you already know, there's 3497 bottles left (3 are already below my bed ahahahahahahah!), and we've started today a speciall partnership with DALVA because we(VINOLOGIA) are officially the best seller of 52 GW in the Iberic Peninsula. There's now a big advertisement at the bar entrance, and I've notest that the curiosity can really kill the cat, with the number of people asking for it, altough I assure my good friends, that there will NOT be a single bottle that will be sold(or as been sold) that the customer don't really know what he's bringing back home,that's one of the big differences between a supermarket and Vinologia in my opinion.

:arrow: Let me know wich will be your sins!!! ahaha

I 'll be in touch!

Greetings from Porto!

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:55 pm

50 posts is quite commendable but you are still in 2nd place from the Portuguese posting on this website. You'll just have to try harder to beat him!

In all seriousness, CONGRATULATIONS to my friend Gustavo who was recently enthroned into the Port Wine Institute's Confraria ... and now we are truly Brothers! Not only did the IVDP bring him into the Brotherhood, but Gustavo is one of the youngest members EVER to be enthroned into the Confraria, which is quite a big deal in Port circles! There was quite a buzz in Oporto when he was called up before the Chancellor at the Palacio da Bolsa to receive his official scroll and you can see what they put around his neck. A proud moment for he and his family!

The wine he is speaking of is one of only a very few known white Colheitas in existence. It is incredibly delicious and complex and rivals just about any red Colheita that you are likely to find.

As you have read in my article(s) and tasting notes, during every tour that I guide through Porto ... Vinologia is a must visit for our guests. Even when I head over there on my own, I always make sure to stop at this great denizen of Port, to see Gustavo and his father, with a back bar not to be missed (filled with over 50 bottles of Port at any given moment).

Gustavo, muito obrigado por noticias de '52 Dalva.

Sempre ao dispor!

Um grande abraço,

Roy

Eric Ifune · Post by **Eric Ifune** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:46 pm

I've also three bottles, purchased at Vinologia, except they're in my cellar and not under my bed. I'd have gotten more if I had more shipping room!

Gustavo Devesas · Post by **Gustavo Devesas** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:25 pm

Hello Eric, nice to see that you have been at Vinologia!
Did I met you or not?Honestly without a picture it's way too dificult!
What's your 52 edition?bottled in 2006?
This last bottles we have are all bottles in 2007, 55 years in the oak!!!

Take care!

Gustavo

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:23 pm

I am not Eric, but I can say that he was on our last trip and was with me on that famous Sunday night. Dinner at a small "club" after a massive tasting at Vinologia will never be forgotten!

I love that place.

He bought the bottles from you and your father Gustavo.

The bigger question is, when is he going to crack one open and for what occasion?

David Spriggs · Post by **David Spriggs** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:16 pm

Congratulations Gustavo on your induction into the Confraria! I wish I could be in Oporto right now... ah well. I would buy a case of that Dalva if I could. If I'm there next year, then I will try

By the way, here is a good picture of Gustavo in his element.

I'll see you next time I'm in Oporto!
-Dave-

Todd Pettinger · Post by **Todd Pettinger** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:19 pm

Wow, that is a truly unique and very cool racking set up. You can read the labels by looking up at them, with little effort, yet they are all laying properly (horizontally) and accessible.

Very cool, and congratulations Gustavo on your initiation into the Confraria!

Todd

Post by **Andy Velebil** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:26 pm

Gustavo,

That is a great white Colheita....I sould be there again in October, so save me a few bottles.

To echo what others have said....when in Oporto area Vinologia is a must visit...relax and let Gustavo and his father serve you some great Ports and look around the shop at all the cool bottles you won't ever see again....unless you buy it

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:34 am

Also a great place to buy things like the best set of Port tongs known to mankind.

If you look back in the article archives to the Tour of Duty that was written about in the Jan. 2006 newsletter from the Oct. 2005 trip (our very first time taking guests along with us to Oporto/Gaia/Douro) you will see great photos of Vinologia, the famous back bar ... Gustavo, incredible old bottles etc. as well as TNs from that visit.

David, I have a feeling that 3497 bottles of this nectar is not going to last until the Harvest 2008 trip! It reminds me of Wimpy's most famous line, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." I bet half you youngsters out there have no idea what this reference is.

Post by **Andy Velebil** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:13 am

Here is a pic I took of the bar at Vinologia

YUMMY

Gustavo Devesas · Post by **Gustavo Devesas** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:33 am

They are all MINE ahahahah! :twisted:

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:52 pm

Thanks Andy, besides the IVPs Solar in Porto, Lisboa and I only can assume (never been) to the newest version which is Regua, this MUST be the best Port bar in the world.

Post by **Andy Velebil** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:48 pm

Gustavo,

Rub it in, we deserve it

Eric Ifune · Post by **Eric Ifune** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:48 pm

I am not Eric, but I can say that he was on our last trip and was with me on that famous Sunday night. Dinner at a small "club" after a massive tasting at Vinologia will never be forgotten! I love that place.

He bought the bottles from you and your father Gustavo.

The bigger question is, when is he going to crack one open and for what occasion?

Yes, It was great! I also bought a pair of tongs which I'm using as much as possible. I also got a box of those chocolate covered dried figs which I gave to my mother. She wants more! I guess I'll have to come back as soon as possible according to her wishes!

If I managed to get more of the Dalva, I'd open one tomorrow. As is, I might wait until my next birthday coming up.

Eric Ifune · Post by **Eric Ifune** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:51 pm

Hello Eric, nice to see that you have been at Vinologia!
Did I met you or not?Honestly without a picture it's way too dificult!
What's your 52 edition?bottled in 2006?
This last bottles we have are all bottles in 2007, 55 years in the oak!!!

Mine are 2006. Interesting that you mentioned that some were bottled in 2007. We had some later in our trip that didn't taste quite as great as at your establishment. Perhaps these were from a different bottling?

Post by **Andy Velebil** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:21 am

Eric,
Gustavo shipped me some Port tongs over a year ago. i love them and use them quite frequently. next time I head over there I may pick up another pair...after all, one cannot have enough Port tongs

Gustavo Devesas · Post by **Gustavo Devesas** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:29 am

Roy Hersh wrote:Thanks Andy, besides the IVPs Solar in Porto, Lisboa and I only can assume (never been) to the newest version which is Regua, this MUST be the best Port bar in the world.

Thank you Roy, for your entusiastic words about our bar.
I feel a big proud to listen this but in my honest opinion, I think that the Vinologia it's NOT working as it should be or it can be...
Now that I'm "out" from there working in another place(I only go there friday night after work, and Saturday) I see that my parents start to be tired,and little things like decor or exposition of the bottles is many times forgotten, I assume that it's quite "normal" if I go back 7 years and I see that since we 've Vinologia, my parents have never had a single week of vacations, so I imagine the quantity of stress and how tired they are...
It's quite interesting to see that Jean Phillipe first because of his age and lack of organization style, second because he's French (I meen it!!!), it's for me impossible to spend 2 consecutive days with him at Vinologia without "trouble" because we've totally diferent ways of thinking,and I'm always REALLY pissedddddddddd

when I see some cases or bottles NOT in their places!!!It makes me really MAD!!!
To resume, I feel that there's a LOT to do in Vinologia, specially INSIDE of the bar, and it's importante as well "OUTSIDE" with the customer, using my new IT skills ahahahahahhahaha!

I'm willing to open a new Vinologia, still don't know where, in wich city or country but it's an idea for the future!Who knows that we start to "franchise" VINOLOGIA ahahahahah!

Take care!

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:12 am

If I managed to get more of the Dalva, I'd open one tomorrow. As is, I might wait until my next birthday coming up.

I just might have to do that this evening Eric!

Gustavo,

Should you ever decide to open a Vinologia in the 5th largest Port market in the USA which is better known as Seattle ... I would be happy to discuss a partnership. I spent over 25 years in the food and beverage industry before making Port my life. CV upon request.

Gustavo Devesas · Post by **Gustavo Devesas** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:46 am

I will definetly think about it, the only problem about going to a foreign country to me is:

1 - How do I get there my "Small Producers Ports!??? I will NEVER resist to have a place only with the big ones!

2 - I'm a total "newbie" about how to "behave" outside Europe!

3 - I have to drag my girl friend with me ... or NOT

(It's still dificult to convince women, but I'm making progresses (I think!!!)!

4 - I first need to fulfill one of my traveller's dream's wich is visiting Montreal ahahah and Vancouver, in respect of my beloved Canadian customers, they will never forgive me, on opening a Vinologia in the US without visiting them first! ehehe!

Jason Brandt Lewis · Post by **Jason Brandt Lewis** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:42 am

Yes, but that is what people like Roy (or myself) are for . . .

For The Love Of Port

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