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- 16:22 Thu 14 Sep 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Leaking cork, what should i do?
- Replies: 6
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Re: Leaking cork, what should i do?
Obviously it's not ideal, but nor is it particularly uncommon, depending on the age of the bottle and its cork condition, and the amount of temperature (and pressure) change the bottle undergoes during its transportation (hence the general preference to transport during cooler months). Here's what I...
- 11:51 Tue 12 Sep 2023
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 346
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Re: Port brand abbreviations
Dolamore and Quinta Dona Matilde are of different eras, with, I suspect, no vintages in common. No good question should go unanswered; to the best of my knowledge: - Dm : Dolamore BOB vintage port from 1966..1982 - BrDM : Barros Quinta Dona Matilde (single quinta) vintage port from 1982..2002 - (q)...
- 13:31 Mon 11 Sep 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
- Replies: 73
- Views: 92130
Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
In some way this is a real unicorn of a bottle, as there is so very little to go on to create a market. I can only find one other 1925 vintage (this was a SQVP but from a different lodge) being auction in the UK in the last few years, which realised £300, plus this is one of the most expensive auct...
- 13:04 Mon 11 Sep 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
- Replies: 73
- Views: 92130
Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
For me the next step would be to find the value of the bottle, I am certainly open to having a seat at a tasting. I am more of a collector of wine, the best part of the wine collecting and tasting is opening a bottle with friends, like minded people! Again thank you all for your input and passion!!...
- 09:39 Mon 11 Sep 2023
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 346
- Views: 248375
Re: Port brand abbreviations
Dm = Dolamore? Ick. While allowed, having both DM and Dm seems ripe to cause confusion. Perhaps Do for Dolomore? I'm less worried about Dm vs DM . We already have similarly VZ (Van Zeller) vs Vz (Quinta de Ventozelo), and I suspect there will be others. Admittedly I've started pre-pending with"...
- 10:30 Tue 29 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Quevedo White 30YO (bottled 2022) - Tonel 14: Granpa's White
- Replies: 2
- Views: 378
Re: NV Quevedo White 30YO (bottled 2022) - Tonel 14: Granpa's White
I differed slightly on this. Fascinating to try, but I put Grandpa's and Claudia's top, followed by Senior and then Junior; I clearly liked Claudia's much more than both of you. And since we'd been trying a lot of blending, I was messing around and found that the best I could come up with was a blen...
- 20:59 Sun 27 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (bottled 2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1583
Re: 1994 Graham Single Harvest Tawny
1994 Graham Colheita (Single Harvest Tawny) ...Delicious, and should be very interesting with more age and intensity. Phil, Are you saying the already bottled version should be very interesting with more age or are you referring to the '94 that's still in barrel to be bottled at a later date? The l...
- 20:39 Sun 27 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (bottled 2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1583
Re: 1994 Graham Single Harvest Tawny
Bottled 2020.Alex Bridgeman wrote:Any idea when the wine was bottled?
- 21:02 Sat 26 Aug 2023
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 346
- Views: 248375
Re: Port House abbreviations
We seem to be veering toward SL . Should we ask? Please could whoever is best connected send this link , also asking that they peruse the first post of this thread? Also, because we're all pedants, it's São Leonardo, not San Leonardo. One could dispute whether we are all full-strength pedants, rath...
- 20:55 Sat 26 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (bottled 2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1583
1994 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (bottled 2020)
1994 Graham Colheita (Single Harvest Tawny) Very clean flavour, fresh; not yet old enough to gain much intensity, but lovely flavours (caramels, light nuts, perhaps a little raisin), strong acidity then cuts across growing complexity and great length. Delicious, and should be very interesting with ...
- 08:11 Thu 24 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2011 Dow
- Replies: 2
- Views: 355
2011 Dow
It had been a long, long time since I tried this wine, and I was quite surprised to see it available by the glass at 67 Pall Mall, as my expectation was that it would currently be in its closed/awkward teenage phase, but not so. Admittedly I don't know how long the bottle may have been opened, but o...
- 11:32 Thu 17 Aug 2023
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Advice please
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6497
Re: Advice please
Also, if you gentlemen have suggestions for a very old vintage port, perhaps the most expensive bottle I'd buy, around 200-300E, i will definitely consider it!! That all depends on your definition of very old. Also you've given us a price range of e200-300, and then asked about the e550 T63 (which ...
- 09:39 Tue 15 Aug 2023
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Advice please
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6497
Re: Advice please
I agree with Alex's recommendations, but just to add a few more notes/suggestions: - Ramos Pinto and Ferriera are both good for tour + museum items - Graham's lodge has perhaps the widest range of ports (including both vintage and colheita) which can be purchased by the glass in their tasting rooms,...
- 09:09 Tue 15 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
- Replies: 73
- Views: 92130
Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
Thanks for posting the extra pictures It's certainly an odd one, always interesting to (virtually) examine unusual old bottles. Given the T-stopper, it's extremely unlikely to be VP, and as Andy has said, the paper strip is not a selo; it looks like a tax stamp (which might be consistent). The fact ...
- 14:55 Mon 14 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
- Replies: 73
- Views: 92130
Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
Interesting looking further at the additional photos you've added to your post. From what I can see currently, it does indeed look like a T-stopper rather than driven cork, which as DRT mentioned makes it much less likely to be VP again; also the paper tape over the cap doesn't look like a normal po...
- 19:00 Sat 12 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
- Replies: 73
- Views: 92130
Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellias port
Hi and welcome to :tpf: and a very interesting bottle you have. The Taylor Vargellas 1925 is a vintage port listed with evidence in "The Book" (by jdaw1 on this site). I'm assuming that as the owner of such a venerable bottle, you probably know of/about the Quinta da Vargellas vineyard ( h...
- 12:05 Sat 05 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Tour of Berry’s historic London shop and cellars
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1561
Re: Tour of Berry’s historic London shop and cellars
Excellent plan; I've booked myself on the same session.
- 21:24 Fri 04 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1985 Warre
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1528
1985 Warre
Audouzed for 6hr, decanted, drinking the first evening at D+2h onward. Decent, but still quite green/stemmy, something I associate with QH, not normally Warre, albeit Warre underneath. The second evening, D+24h on, now much better integrated this evening, more big dark, very intense plums and some b...
- 19:49 Wed 26 Jul 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
- Replies: 95
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Re: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
Thought I had requested a place but seem to have been bumped, possibly as I did say ‘hoped’. Anyway, please add me to any further reserve requests, many thanks. You are not alone. But note: I think that there might have been a snafu, and some acceptances were listed out of order. I will re-do my ad...
- 12:34 Wed 19 Jul 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
- Replies: 57
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- 21:46 Wed 28 Jun 2023
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Quevedo colheita
- Replies: 1
- Views: 522
1994 Quevedo colheita
Colheitas seem to me to generally taste perhaps 10 years younger than their XX year old tawnies (such as 30yr Colheita vs 20 year tawny), probably due to the small amounts of older components in the mix. The Q94c is interesting to me as it tastes younger than I expect, perhaps 17yt equiv, but is soo...
- 20:41 Mon 26 Jun 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Unusual Shaped Port Bottle
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11276
Re: Unusual Shaped Port Bottle
There was a bottle with a flat side at auction in April, with the cap clearly showing it was port - was this the one you opened? If not then there is another one or there at least.
- 15:56 Fri 23 Jun 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Whitwham's Bottler.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7699
Re: Whitwham's Bottler.
Interesting - thank you. The bottle and labels match well to all the other Croft 1945 I've seen, which usually have a red wax capsule with "CROFT T&C OPORTO", the though wax is often mostly missing. I wonder whether Whitwhams recorked this, or perhaps just put their seal on over the to...
- 10:36 Fri 23 Jun 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Whitwham's Bottler.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7699
Re: Whitwham's Bottler.
Mike - I should have asked - could you post a couple of pics of your bottle? (full bottle, and capsule from top/side) I've only ever seen one version of Cr45, with a distinctive bottle shape, bottled in Oporto with the T+C (Thomson and Croft) stamp on the red wax, so am curious as to what your bottl...
- 14:14 Thu 22 Jun 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Whitwham's Bottler.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7699
Re: Whitwham's Bottler.
I've had very mixed experience with Whitwhams, but I suspect this may be somewhat self-selecting, since looking back at my records I can find only one port actually bottled by them, while there are several which have been recorked by them, and others where a Whitwhams generic label has been applied ...