For The Love Of Port

My Mother found this in a relative's home. Fill is mid-shoulder. T-Cork broke off. Stored upright but in a dark closet. Based on photos on the internet, looks to be c.1951--I see it listed for $10.76 for a bottle. Am curious as the label does say it may throw off a crust.

Certainly will open this with the Port fellows as an odd and curious experiment. I love these old labels, especially the text, on very old bottles.

Cool find. Looks like a basic Ruby Port that was probably only very lightly fined and/or filtered back then, hence the disclaimer. I wouldn't expect it to be awesome given the type of Port, how it's been aged, and it's fill level. But I do hope it is still enjoyable and I look forward to reading how it was.

I love the 25/32 quart bottle size.

Quite a cool looking bottle. I agree, probably not one destined for the greatest tasting hall of fame, but hopefully it tastes as good as the label is cool!


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Nice find..

Low end price tag bottles get lost to history, because no-one thinks to preserve them. A friend of mine collects old grocery items, like unopened rolls of 1950's toilet paper and cans of NHS orange juice from the same era - crazy on the one hand, but a fascinating exercise in the preservation of ephemera..

Tom Archer wrote: A friend of mine collects old grocery items, like unopened rolls of 1950's toilet paper and cans of NHS orange juice from the same era - crazy on the one hand...

Collector or Hoarder?

Collector or Hoarder?

Collector - everything has it's place..

Tom Archer wrote:

Collector or Hoarder?

Collector - everything has it's place..

A hoarder might argue the same :-P

What makes you a collector is that you're regularly willing to part with bottles, at least for consumption purposes.

I feel like I have just been called a "wine hoarder..."

A hoarder might argue the same

In my book, a collector knows his or her collection intimately and knows pretty much exactly where every item is.

A hoarder is someone who has a problem with chucking stuff out, and amasses ever growing stacks of junk and rubbish, with little idea as to what they own or where things are..

Stewart T. wrote:I feel like I have just been called a "wine hoarder..."

Is that incorrect or bad?

Tom Archer wrote:

A hoarder might argue the same

In my book, a collector knows his or her collection intimately and knows pretty much exactly where every item is.

A hoarder is someone who has a problem with chucking stuff out, and amasses ever growing stacks of junk and rubbish, with little idea as to what they own or where things are..

Oooh. That's not good. I only have a vague idea of what I own or where it is any I have never been able to make myself throw a bottle away once it is past its "best before" date.