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Earlier this evening went to check the bottles. I decided to take them, they look in pretty good shape (all three have levels in the upper shoulder of the bottles, no signs of leakage). The capsules mention (as far as I can read): shipped solely by Guimaraens & Co Porto. I've not seen this stat...

Fonseca have some quite good information about the history of the firm on their website: link While the "producer" or "house" that we now refer to as Fonseca Guimaraens seems to have existed in a number of legal forms (both corporate and partnership) in UK and Oporto over the yea...

Unfortunaately i am out of the country from the previous Friday for a couple of weeks

Of course there might be exceptions, but this is the default. Yes - it was just that that particular listing, in contrast to some of the other auction listings, did not specify that this was the bottling date (and Andy's subsequent reference to "Port of this year" gave me pause for though...

Auction, Christie’s, 30 March 1978. http://www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150114_19780330_Ck73crusted.png (Reproduced by kind permission of Christie’s ; my picture #24516.) Being my birth year, If anyone comes across any of these let me know or buy them. Port from this year is quite hard to come by, tho...

And could introducing Oporto-stored halves into this mix risk fouling the water somewhat, since they'd possibly be even more advanced than English-cellared? Personally I don't think that the results will count for much unless they are all oporto-cellared and from one of the recent ex-cellars releas...

PhilW wrote:As others have suggested, another option would be to buy a few individual bottles and join us for some tastings in London if you are able

OP lives close to Copenhagen, which has a very active port scene from what i understand.

(ii) consider allocating some of your initial budget not to purchasing large quantities of bottles for storage / consumption at home but in attending tastings so that you can work out where your tastes lie and have the opportunity to try a lot more different bottles than if you only open from your ...

LGTrotter wrote:the 77s with a reputation for problems are I think Dow, Nierpoort, Taylor

Not sure if this is a running joke that i've missed the point of!!

I'd like to jump on this wagon by asking a not-entirely unrelated question: having only gone as far back as 1985 in my forays into vintage port, which vintages, and indeed, port houses, are especially prone to TCA and make any purchases of such a port to be too risky? I've heard a lot of '77s are q...

The Ch85 seems especially good value given that it showed better that both the T85 and F85 at a tasting we had when Glenn was over last year. Forgot that. Yes, very true. Also agree with all Rob (RAYC) says. I notice on FTLOP some people recommended Fonseca 85 maybe. I think this is a nice idea but...

Looks like a nice collection, perhaps a bit overweight on 83s (unless you were born in 1983) - personally i think you would have more fun re-allocating part of that budget to 1970! Gould Campbell 77 is often a great port but be prepared (especially, it seems, if purchasing in single bottles) for a h...

Don't most storage facilities offer single bottle withdrawals nowadays? Possibly, but Seckfords seem to avoid holding bottles that are not part of a 9l case / half case unit (unless shipped in bond eg: as a 3-pack / single bottle / large format) - i seem to recall this was something to do with thei...

If at seckfords, they may well allow you to do a 6 + 6 split (I have a number of 3-bottle cases in storage there, so it is a volume they recognise). Have not had Cavadinha 87, but re-reading my old note on a half bottle of GM90 from June 2013 (which is likely to be from the same Symington shipment a...

• Mg60 — “Med pale col. Rich & straw col. Light. V fwd easy & soft”. Of this, the word I think most open to challenge is the “soft”. For reasons Daniel states, I also think "V good" rather than "V fwd" (and to me the word looks the same as the last word in the previous n...

jdaw1 wrote: • Mg60 — “Med pale col. Rich & straw col.

The two "col."s do not look like the same word to me

jdaw1 wrote: Musky

Rather than "musty"?

If i understand your post correctly: - in order to save on admin on both sides, you were happy to keep the extra Fonsecas and cancel the order for the Warre 2011. You expected to pay the price for the Fonsecas - but offset against (i) the costs of the extra shipping that would be involved in rectify...

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I think figures in brackets are for last year. Page 2 of this thread contains discussion of how AHB classifies sqvp

Time to make some more tappit hens then....3 should do it if you drink a further bottle while you work!

Since they buy in grapes from outside the estate for this port, I think this is just "Noval Silval" (without the "quinta do")

Graham 83 is a serious candidate for port of the 80s, in my view. Ramos Pinto, Niepoort and Warre 83 have all been drinking very nicely over past couple of years. Gould Campbell shows good promise. I had my doubts about this vintage for some time, but now I think it no better or worse than 80 or 85....

LGTrotter wrote:I quote; "They have been with a 3rd party supplier until recently, good condition, not recorked."

I wonder who the 3rd man was? Cue zither music...

Opened one of these recently-purchased SW 77s earlier - the BBR stock have definitely been recorked (will post photo in New Year).

When were your respective bottles opened? [edit: I meant when were they "bottled"] I recently had a 2011 bottling from an old order we put in with the UK distributors just before a 2013 bottling freshly purchased from Waitrose, and the extra couple of years in bottle had (to my taste) been...