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Derek,

Given that only a tiny fraction of Vesuvio's production gets bottled as QdoV, they are not exactly short of supply.

I'll wager that the cost of making the case and it's trappings is a lot more than the cost of producing two extra bottles!

Tom

Derek,

The most recent hammer falls have been in the low £300's - retail price is around £40/bottle

Tom

Give us £10 off the price of a case

Better still, give us a case of 8 for the same money - packed in high class brown corrugated cardboard of course..

Tom

OK - I Googled it - sad, I know... This is the result... High on a hill was a lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo Folks in a town that was quite remote heard Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Lusty and clear from the go...

No, its:

Yodell odel, yodell odel, yodell odel hey he..

I think..?

Tom

Taylor did declare '75 - but along with Graham (and closely followed by Croft) it is a wine that bucks the negative reputation of the '75 vintage - not a superstar, but declaration-worthy.. ~~~ Another day and this wine keeps getting better - much better - but who would normally wait this long? Anyo...

When you've finished, I still have plenty more in stock ..

Tom

Broadband - or broad smile??

Why is this sort of thing so uniquely American... - work out a plan for something the media will like, but don't think about the possible consequences..

..now where have we seen this before - but on a bigger scale??

- Did 'yo Blair' pick the grapes??

Tom

Dunno how to put pictures in a post, so check this avatar (until I restore Beaker!)

Tom

..Roughly two bottles in three are VP...

Tom

Can I be nosey? If I was to drink a Taylors 83, or similar bottle, I would need an occasion. Doesn't have to be much, a friend visiting, a birthday,etc,etc. I get the feeling your lucky enough to have the cellar and the inclination to just 'Open a bottle'. Is that true or do you attach it to a reas...

the stainless steel filter does leave some sediment in the decanter If the sediment is fine and the wine dark, it's hard to avoid a little getting into the decanter. While the last glass may end up being a tad cloudy - it's often the best one out of the decanter - a little wispy sediment does not s...

Every case of Vesuvio comes complete with a nice pottery bin label, neatly packed in it's own little black and white box.. ..but how many people use bins for storing their bottles these days?? I have a stack of those little boxes in my cellar, and while I'm loathe to throw them away, I haven't a clu...

Fill levels were always a bit vague until Christies first published their much copied diagram about 20 years ago. The daft thing is that even Christies don't stick to it when describing lots! Here is my guide to port fill level acronyms. This is broadly consistant with the Christies diagram and actu...

Well, evolve it has - but slowly! After 24 hours it was more presentable, but still fiery and weak on the nose - at this point I did wonder if it might be very slightly corked. Now, this evening, after 48 hours, it is finally coming together, with the fire much reduced, and nose much better - not co...

Nice one Alan - makes me wonder whether we should have a few standing information pages on the site.

I just looked at the decanting advice The Vintage Port site and it really makes me cringe...

Tom

My experiance of the 92's is very limited, and, so far, disappointing. Of the 91's I've had, my consistant feeling is that these are still in the 'Kevin' phase. Each to his own of course, but I'm not rushing to put them on my drinking list at the moment - I have a gut feeling that the 91's will real...

Why is my name sub-titled 'Cruz Ruby' while others have Cockburn's Ruby and Fonseca Bin 27?

Tom

First bottle out of a case bought last year. The folly of totally opaque glass comes home when bottles reach this age - how does one spot the bottle that is losing level faster than the others, and should therefore be drunk first? As it was, I picked this bottle because it had the worst label - the ...

I'm wondering if we should have a marketplace section, or an Auction News section.

- or is this better left in the general forum??

Tom