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[/quote]Labels are not always a good indicator of what’s in the bottle, so I hope it will turn out to be well stored! Are you planing on drinking it?[/quote] I know, but it won't hurt to hope! The fill level in the bottle also seems excellent, so I take that as an indication of proper storage as wel...

It really sounds as though this is a 1937 white colheita. Is there anything which shows the date of bottling? If we are right, this should be a stunning wine and one which should not have suffered much if well stored. The only thing mentioned about botteling date, is that it's botteled in 1973 (eng...

g-man wrote:Not sure if you guys know but Oscar from Quevedo is one of the finalists.

http://www.winespectator.com/videovoting

not sure if members only are allowed to vote.

I'm not a member, and have voted (for Oscar, naturally).

Hi all, At auction last week, I won (among other things) a bottle of: Pinto & Co /Vinho do Porto / Récolte 1937 (vieille en Fût) / Blond Doré / Demi-sec.It is bottled in 1973. The back label is in French, and quite damaged, so I can't make out everything it says.From what I can make out, it say...

We had a good excuse to buy some port, so decided we needed more port with some age on it. That resulted in: 9x Fonseca 1970 2x Cockburn 1967 1x Cockburn 1970 Almost at the same time there was an auction with many lots of Niepoort 1977. I never win at these things, so decided to put a bid on a coup...

At auction, last sunday I won (via earlier posted online bids): 5x Dalva 1977 Vintage port (at Eur0 188 incl buyers premium) 7X Fonseca 2000 Vintage port (at Euro 329 incl buyers premium) I'm happy :D Too bad I (just) missed out on some other lots (a 1966 Taylors VP, a 1948 Burmester VP and a 1957 K...

Quevedo Colheita 1995 x 6
Quevedo Colheita 1996 x 6
Quevedo White x 6

Gerwin, Another nice note from you! And, yes, jammy is an english description for very sweet fruit. Since this was a different bottle, would you mind if I asked one of the admins to separate this tasting note from the earlier one so that they show up on the tasting note index as two separate tastin...

Last night opened the second bottle of the lot. I will try to post my TN's on every bottle of this one here, as I open them in the (hopefully) next couple of years. This bottle looks fine, no signs of leakage / seepage or anuthing. Level is good as well. The cork (driven) came out a bit crumbled, as...

Bottled in 2002, won at auction last sunday (so not sure about provenance, and it has been in bottle for 8 years already). Bottles all look pretty good still with driven corks. Although I've been around this forum for a while, this will be my first (or one of my first) tasting notes, so bear with me...

smisse wrote:Yesterday on the 26th of September 2010 at 5:15PM CET I became the proud father of Tristan.
Tistan weighs 4,170kgs and measures 52cm!

Mother and son are doing great

Many congratulations to you and your family Dries!

Jesper on 24 March 2005 (a solid SQ Vintage year) and top Bordeaux vintage) :D ; Thijmen on 11 January 2007 (looks to be a great to classic Vintage) :D . This, I'm sure is compensation for the fact that my birthyear was an absolute rubbish year for about any kind of wine (1973) :( . On the other han...

3x Gould Campbell 2000 VP
2x Quevedo Special Reserve Tawny NV

Last sunday, at auction (placed bids online beforehand, wasn't at the auction): - Q do Vesuvio 1995 VP case of 6; -Q do Vesuvio 1996 VP case of 6; - Q do Vesuvio 1997 VP case of 6. :D Nice purchase Gerwin. Which auction was it? Thanks, it was yes :D (Although I missed out on 3 bottles of Taylor's V...

Last sunday, at auction (placed bids online beforehand, wasn't at the auction):

- Q do Vesuvio 1995 VP case of 6;
-Q do Vesuvio 1996 VP case of 6;
- Q do Vesuvio 1997 VP case of 6.

Thanks to all of you for the replies so far :D . On the bases of this, I've narrowed the options down a bit to: - Passadouro (btw made / bottled by Niepoort) 1992 (92+ Parker for what it's worth :roll: ); - Roeda 1983; - Taylor's Vargellas 1986; - Burmester 1991 (I believe this one got 86 :ws: point...

Hi all, Coming Sunday I am planning a little dinner, which will be concluded with a nice VP. I have several options to choose from, and I would very much like to read your suggestions / input on which one you all would pick and why. Here are my options: - Burmester 1991 - Niepoort 1991 - Quinta do P...

+1for Oscar!

I've put the date on July 9th for the moment. If there are major with that please let me know. Dries, everybody knows birthday celebrations are best done on Saturday. :wink: Hi Ronnie, I have just learned that my wife has booked a surprise-weekend away (the surprise being the actual location) for h...

I've put the date on July 9th for the moment. If there are major with that please let me know. Dries, everybody knows birthday celebrations are best done on Saturday. :wink: Hi Ronnie, I have just learned that my wife has booked a surprise-weekend away (the surprise being the actual location) for h...

Seems like a wonderful opportunity to get to meet some more / other port enthousiasts! Given my (still) quite limited port collection, I don't know if I am able to contribute something great or special (will depend on the theme of course). :mrgreen: :tpf: :D But I would very much like to be there, s...

I have two young sons (2 and 4) from 2007 and 2005. A large part of my (future) VP collectione therefore consists of bottles of these both vintages, which I am building together with my father. My 2007 VP orders (so far, combined with the ones that my father ordered) are: Dow's (case of 6) Fonseca (...

Derek, The PM's coming your way within a few moments! Thanks so much for your reply and offer to send me an example and some chains!! It's really appreciated! :D :993300: Gerwin We have used such labels on decanters at many :tpf: tastings and JDAWs standard placemat software even produces a sheet (o...

Does anybody know if, and if so where (preferred in Europe), I can get hold of "decanter-labels" which can be re-used (re-writable, i.e. with whiteboard marker of a chalkstick)? I think I once saw a picture of a bunch of decanters, which had a label (hanging from a chain) around them on wh...

DRT wrote:Ferreira 1945?

We have a winner! The only way we could make out the shipper was a (fading) stamped bottlecapsule.

The VP itself was still in excellent condition. This was my first experience with a VP of that age (60 years in bottle).

DRT's up!