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Interesting, it looks rather like an olive oil bottle with the flat side and color.

Personally I wouldn't overthink it, the world was so vastly different in 1929; there were more bespoke things happening in manufacturing.

Not going to lie that is one cool bottle. The first Port harvest of the nuclear age.

The end of what one might call, "low-background Port."

Wow that's a strong result for SW and QH, will have to try some.

Shame RP83 wasn't served, iirc it has done well in the past.

I know 1984 was a bad year for Port, but I must say I rather enjoyed the '84 Graham Malvedos in the 84-92 vertical. A simple strawberry slurper, light but balanced. Not one for the critics perhaps, but I'd wager it would please most laymen. Definitely one to drink up soon.

Sten's site has a TN from 2020 for a 1964 Poças Jr. And there is exactly one bottle of it listed on CellarTracker (although that could be a misidentification).

For a fairly rare VP like all these, best bet is probably to call the winery itself and maybe a few large PT retailers/distributors.

That's amazing research. Are these stainless steel 75μm filters or nylon or what?

If you have a specific stainless one to recommend, please do so.

In the US, sales taxes are virtually never included in a given price, so you should always tack on an extra 6% or so. In this case, it's NY state, my recent invoice from them added 8.3% to the final price with BP (this tax varies a bit by county, but is around 8% for NY state). For the sake of prese...

For what's it worth, that GST lot was an Oct 13, 2019 hammer for 6 bottles for $1606 (BP included). Original Estimate then, $750 - $1,100.

If it was Euros it'd be even cheaper! I do hope the new rates start making a difference in the retail prices here, even if there is some lag. I particular, I noticed you can buy regular unaged white ports for only ~7 EUR and LBVs for 11-15 EUR in Portugal but here it's $14+ and ~$20-25, respectively.

Release prices for top-tier VP in the US have been in the $80 to $100 range since at least the 2011 vintage, and I think all the way back to 2007. SQVPs and second-tier labels have been $60 to $80 during that same time. That's interesting. Not many '11 lots hitting the auction yet, but I'm almost f...

Amazingly thorough post Glenn, I love it. After reading your comments about it being 90% corked, I saw a 12-case of the '83 Cockburn go for $685 at auction last week and the first thought that popped into my head is that I'd rather buy a $685 2001 Chrysler Sebring Convertible at auction. It would pr...

Does anyone have the final scores of these or which ones they liked best?