Links:
- 1970 Kopke S. Luiz;
- 1985 Churchill;
- 1985 Taylor;
- 2007 Quevedo;
- Placemats;
- Some planning;
- Review of the evening as a whole.
Don't think so, enjoying a bottle of Meantime Indian Pale Ale with my supper and the cork is branded!jdaw1 wrote:Decanted at noon, and not properly tasted then.
Is cork-branding that expensive?
Julian,jdaw1 wrote:Decanted at noon, and not properly tasted then.
But a grumble. Oscar: why the unbranded corks? In eighty years, when a lonely bottle is found at the bottom of my recently-deceased descendant’s cellar, the purchaser(s) might never know what it is. ‟Very fine”, they’ll doubtless think, ‟but such a shame that we don’t know what it was”.
Is cork-branding that expensive?
Thanks, Oscar and Julian for raising this topic. I am now with my 50 something sample from the 07 and experienced more unbranded corks or corks with simply saying Vintage Port than ever before, but this is definitely an explanation.oscar quevedo wrote:Julian,
I have to thank you for sharing your opinion and in this case disappointment regarding the usage of unbranded corks in our Vintage 2007. At the same time you are also giving us the opportunity to clarify this to other Port lovers. We had planed to bottle our Vintage 2007 in early July. But the temperatures were going up and we were felling uncomfortable to have it in the tank, waiting for the branded corks, which would take some weeks to receive. The corks supplier could provide unbranded corks in a couple of days. So it was a hard decision but we preferred to bottle it earlier, avoiding the heat of the Summer, even without the due cork.
Of course all this would have been avoided if we had ordered the corks with some months in advance. My big fault was not to have controlled this accordingly. To my regret we can't do anything now and I have to live with this for the rest of my days. But I hope this do not repeat in the future.
That said, this was not a question of price of the cork. Indeed I think there is no difference in the price of the branded cork and the unbranded one.
and dont' forget to get someone to import it to NY!oscar quevedo wrote: Julian, if we will release a Quevedo Vintage 2009 I will make sure we will brand the corks
Oscar
Then I'm keeping the bottle - it's a collector's item! Some day far in the future someone will find this empty bottle and think it was a forgery, so I'll have to make sure I keep a printout of this thread with the bottle at all times. It's going to be worth millions once Quevedo takes over the industry!!!oscar quevedo wrote:Hi Glen, the bottle you had from Gonçalo is the official Quevedo Vintage 2007. But at the time we sent the bottle to Vinologia, right after bottling, we did not have the labels printed. So we sent draft labels on for them to introduce the wine at the bar.