So I Must be Totally Insulting You All--- Port From My Cellar

[Lars Ryssdal]

I'd let the lot go for a grand. Shipping is negotiable.

Thanks for your patience with me.

Lars

# bottles Wine Searcher New Price $ extension
1983 Fonseca 1 112 75 75
1983 Taylor 1 121 65 65
1984 Fonseca Guimareans 2 40 40 80
1985 Fonseca 1 130 90 90
1985 Taylor 1 121 50 121
1985 Delaforce 1 59 50 50
1986 Taylor Quinta Vargellas 1 50 40 40
1994 Fonseca 1 225 125 125
1994 Taylor 1 216 150 150
1995 Fonseca Guimareans 3 61 50 150
1995 Cockburn Quinta Dos Can 2 35 35 70
1997 Sandeman Vau 4 80 60 240
2000 Taylor 1 101 75 75
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[Ray Barnes]

For what it's worth, I have not been insulted - just dealing with the additional financial obligations of handing my late mother's estate, including court probate fees and notarizations. It's a very attractive parcel of wine.

[Al B.]

Lars,

I think you are offering some very fine wines at a fair price. My problem are:
(i) I live on the other side of the Atlantic; and
(ii) I have a lot of other financial obligations at the moment that are competing for my port funds.

You are offering a terrific parcel for someone who is looking to get a good instant cellar combining current drinking with fine future drinking.

Perhaps people are still recovering from financing Christmas?

[Eric Menchen]

Sorry if I offend, but here is my take. I admit that I am a bargain hunter, so in general I don't find those prices attractive. I think taking an average price on wine-searcher is silly. There are a lot of way overpriced bottles out there to skew the average. In general, I wouldn't want to pay more than the low price on wine-searcher. Sometimes one of those listings might be suspect, and other times it might not be a bottle in good shape, but most of the time it is a valid listing. Lars, you might be offering a better provenance than something on wine-searcher, but at the moment all is unknown.

1995 Fonseca Guimarens for $50? I see 10+ listings on wine-searcher for that amount or less, several at merchants I've purchased from before, and the lowest coming in at $34.99. Personally I paid $34.50 for this in the past several years.

[Phyllis D]

Lars,

If you could have just listed that 12 hours earlier:

Carl and I may have delayed our trip back from the seattle area for a few more hours and took then off your hands, or tried with a little negotiating.

[Roy Hersh]

At $1000 this is a steal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lars, bargain hunters aside, PROVENANCE counts for a lot, for some of us who care and don't want to take chances every time we open a bottle that it might deliver only 90% of what it should. That to me, at least, is worth paying a little bit more for and I know your collection and also know how carefully you've handled all of your wines. Others may not, so that is why I am chiming in.