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[jdaw1]

Please post or send quality photographs of the Guedes ’77.

[SushiNorth]

Please post or send quality photographs of the Guedes ’77.

Tax tag: CV/961604/38
Neck tag: IMPORTED / ROYAL PORT / BOTTLED IN PORTUGAL

Front tag:
PORTO
Guedes
1977 VINTAGE PORT
PRODUCED IN THE DOURO DISTRICT
What Port is to Portugal
Guedes is to those who
appreciate a rare vintage wine,
clothed with all the dignity of a proud name
Produced, Bottled and Shipped by
COMPANHIA GERAL DA AGRICULTURA DAS VINHAS DO ALTO DOURO, S.A.R.L.
V. N. DE GAIA OPORTO-PORTUGAL
CONTENTS/750ML Est. 1756 ALCOHOL/20% BY VOLUME

Back tag:
Guedes
A SPLENDID VINTAGE PORT
Please treat this bottle with respect and you will
enjoy this fine Vintage Port to its best advantage.
Normally, keep this bottle lying on its side. Prepare
to enjoy it by standing the bottle upright for
at least a week, and then carefully decant. Your
full pleasure will repay you for this extra care.
IMPORTERS FOR THE U. S. A.
JOHN GROSS & Co.
BALTIMORE, MD.

[jdaw1]

Thank you.

Please treat all bottles of vintage port with respect.

[DRT]

Please treat all bottles of vintage port with respect.

Including Warre's 1975?

[SushiNorth]

OK, the last batch has arrived (picked up while trying to get a Warre 63)
Warre 85 (3), Dow 77 (5, stained selos), Taylor 85 (3). This was purchased before my "I'm not buying anymore, really" and now i mean it

[Glenn E.]

I just received a pair of Fonseca '70s that I ordered a while back. I'd been hearing so many good things about them right around Christmas that I had to buy some even though I thought they were a tad expensive at $155 each. I haven't seen a better deal since, though, so maybe they weren't as bad as I thought.

[jdaw1]

F70 is usually excellent stuff.

[Rubby]

Croft 1975 (2x)
Croft 1977 (3x)
Croft 1982 (4x)

My wee wine fridge is full already, so I'll have to officially open my new wine cellar for these bottles
(the crawling space beneath my house ).

[Portman]

In addition to my case of 1995 Smith Woodhouse Vintage Madelena, which should be arriving today or tomorrow, I also won at auction two bottles of 1990 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim.

Both of these purchases will help me keep my hands off things that should be left alone. I nearly opened a 97 Vesuvio the other night because I have so few cellar defenders.

[g-man]

Both of these purchases will help me keep my hands off things that should be left alone. I nearly opened a 97 Vesuvio the other night because I have so few cellar defenders.

thats what bordeauxs are for.. 98s are beaut now, as are some 02s, 94s, 83s

[Glenn E.]

I just picked up a pair of Magnums of 1995 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port for $50 each... if they arrive today as expected, I'll let one of them stand up here at the office and then open it for the weekly all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon.

[Portman]

Nice pickup Glenn.

[g-man]

1986 Fonseca Guimaerens - 20$
1995 Fonseca Guimaerens - 25$

[Glenn E.]

Hmm... TCWC has the 1980 Gould Campbell for $35/bottle. TNs place it in the 85-87 point range. To buy or not to buy...

[SushiNorth]

Hmm... TCWC has the 1980 Gould Campbell for $35/bottle. TNs place it in the 85-87 point range. To buy or not to buy...

Some of us acquired a bit of that from them. The test bottle opened showed well for a $35, 30y.o. VP.

[Glenn E.]

The heat mentioned concerns me. I don't mind some heat in younger Ports, but in a 30-yr old VP it can be really annoying and ruin the Port for me. Was it just heat, or was it bordering on tasting alcoholic?

Also from the same tasting... I acquired some 1999 Quinta de Roriz for $30. Is the GC80 at $35 a better buy?

I have to pick and choose purchases carefully these days because I'm quite literally out of storage space. For something to go in the fridge, something else has to come out and my rate of consumption isn't high enough to match the rate at which I find good deals.

[g-man]

umm ... taylor 1924

[SushiNorth]

umm ... taylor 1924

You won it?

[g-man]

umm ... taylor 1924

You won it?

yea apparently

[Glenn E.]

Nice, congratulations!

[g-man]

Nice, congratulations!

haha the wife's going to kill me =)...

gotta go check out the bottle to see if the condition matches.

[Alex Bridgeman]

1986 Fonseca Guimaerens - 20$
1995 Fonseca Guimaerens - 25$

Nice prices!

I've just bought some Dow 2003 at £16.66 ($25) a bottle - not really a cellar defender but not something I could turn down at that price.

[benread]

1986 Fonseca Guimaerens - 20$
1995 Fonseca Guimaerens - 25$

Nice prices!

I've just bought some Dow 2003 at £16.66 ($25) a bottle - not really a cellar defender but not something I could turn down at that price.

Pray tell from where?!

[g-man]

woah, dow 03 for 25$!!!!

in enough quantity and air time it could be a cellar defender!

[Portman]

Great price on the Dow's 03. I'd get all I could at that price.