For The Love Of Port

Brad-- let me know what you ended up with if you want to split, and I'll see if it is something I'm interested in.

Love Eureka, btw.

Bryan H. wrote:Brad-- let me know what you ended up with if you want to split, and I'll see if it is something I'm interested in.

Love Eureka, btw.

That's not a phrase I hear often! You've been here? And will do.


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I'm 2064...I bid a case of 1991 Dows

I am 2049 and between the 18% and shipping don't think I am going to find many deals here. I already have a petty decent size of vintage port from the 90's going forward in the celalr so i was looking to back fill from the 80'sand earlier but doubt I will grab any considerign the prices I was hoping to pay for them.
Good luck everyone!

I'm 2011. I have 5 bids in currently, though only 1 is winning. I plan to re-visit shortly before the auction closes tomorrow night.

Just so it's all in one place:

2011 - Glenn E.
2033 - David Spriggs
2043 - Moses Botbol
2049 - David Co
2055 - Bradley Bogdan
2063 - Eric Menchen
2064 - John M.

2069 has come on board and bid a lot of stuff---prices jumped fast.

Yeah I'm not winning anything anymore. May pop back tomorrow to try and snatch some '95s if they're still cheap, but that's probably it.


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Also, it might be worth folks looking for specific things to put in absentee bids for the live auction the day after this one as well, which includes a lot of port.


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Bradley Bogdan wrote:Also, it might be worth folks looking for specific things to put in absentee bids for the live auction the day after this one as well, which includes a lot of port.

Yes, there is lots more there. You can also follow and bid live.

I have bid live with Leland Little in the past and they move pretty fast. Just a warning.

That's not a phrase I hear often! You've been here? And will do.

Bradley--almost 20 years ago we spent a few days staying in Trinidad and went to Eureka for a dinner. Love the area.

David Spriggs wrote:I have bid live with Leland Little in the past and they move pretty fast. Just a warning.

Agreed. It wasn't much of an issue for me--the fast moving prices went above my range and above retail, for Bordeaux.

John M. wrote:2069 has come on board and bid a lot of stuff---prices jumped fast.

Competing with 2068. They've got the 1994s pretty well covered.

Interestingly, the auction end has changed. Last week it computed out to tonight at 6:00 pm Pacific. Then when Daylight Savings Time went into effect it computed out to tonight at 7:00 pm Pacific. Clearly the server's clock wasn't moved forward.

Now it's back to 6:00 pm... ish. There's a 5-minute difference break between lots 1030 and 1031, with 1031+ ending at 6:05 pm Pacific. There's another 5-minute break between 1060 and 1061+. Very strange, and frankly a bit disturbing for an auction site. Though perhaps it's just every 30 lots?

Yeah, prices have rocketed up pretty much across the board. I still have a couple of bids that I'll put in right before the deadline, but at this point I'm really not expecting to get anything. We'll see.

Looks like I got a 6-pack of V94 and a case of F85. Had to go to ~75% of retail on each to get them (including buyer's premium), but that's okay to me for those particular Ports.

Wouldn't go that high on the others I was looking at.

Wish I had the cash right now to have bid on the F94 and T94... last I saw those were around 50% of retail.

Won an OWC of '92 Vesuvio for $190 and some Burgundy. I bid on 35 lots... Looks like the auction house did the consigner pretty well. Good for him!

I got the 1997 Vesuvio.

Yeah, the 1994 Taylor and Fonseca were tempting for the price, but I already have a bit of those. The 1994 Dow looks like it ended up as even a better bargain around $47/bottle. The 1995 Taylor went for a reasonable price, but more than I was willing to spend; which is more a statement on cellar space and having a lot of 1990s. I would have bought it more for a daily drinker had it been less.

I was outbid on everything. Brad -- you didn't fight for the 1998 Vesuvio??

David Spriggs wrote:I was outbid on everything. Brad -- you didn't fight for the 1998 Vesuvio??

Me too. But I was not willing to go too high either on anything.

John M. wrote:

David Spriggs wrote:I was outbid on everything. Brad -- you didn't fight for the 1998 Vesuvio??

Me too. But I was not willing to go too high either on anything.

Same which I'm happy about as I just got the bill for my new bicycle