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- 19:10 Mon 29 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Hotel or Restaurant Price List of the Week
- Replies: 169
- Views: 137067
Re: Hotel or Restaurant Price List of the Week
The 40 Year Old retails for a comfortable £100-£110 a bottle these days in the UK! I did wonder if it was supposed to be a half but then the price per glass wouldn't make any sense...
- 18:15 Mon 29 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Hotel or Restaurant Price List of the Week
- Replies: 169
- Views: 137067
Re: Hotel or Restaurant Price List of the Week
We stopped at The Beacon today, which is located in the delightfully-named Tea Garden Lane in Happy Valley, just outside Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Their bar menu offered the following: Sandeman LBV 2016, £5 a glass or £70 a bottle. Quinta do Noval, 20 Year Old tawny, £7 a glass or £85 a bottle. Quinta ...
- 09:07 Fri 05 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Churchill's Port Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 41826
Re: Churchill's Port Club
My assumption was always that they were aiming to use port club to drive a lower margin route to market with the online members' portal being closer to retail pricing, with both being probably at a better profit margin than selling via importers etc where at least 2 layers of businesses are taking ...
- 20:50 Thu 04 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11949
Re: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
I am worried that bottle 2 was the victim of a "let's just open one more" miscalculation after bottle 1 was finished...
- 18:21 Thu 04 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11949
- 18:20 Thu 04 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Churchill's Port Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 41826
Re: Churchill's Port Club
I am absolutely not complaining about the selection! But I just wonder how sustainable it is? £80 is about €91. The retail prices are €24 for the 75cl tawny and €32 for the Crusted (so €56 in total). Whilst they don’t sell the 1992 QdAA; the 2003 QdG is €75 and the 1997 VP is €110. It just feels lik...
- 13:13 Thu 04 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Churchill's Port Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 41826
Re: Churchill's Port Club
My most recent box turned up today. A really nice selection, I think: a 1992 SQVP; 2014 Crusted and 10-year-old tawny. I’m a bit worried about the long-term survival of the Port.Club, though. They seem to have terrible trouble with shipping: my box was marked as being sent on 28 March and I am not s...
- 10:20 Thu 04 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11949
Re: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
Classic case for the Port Garotte, I think!
I assume Bin 27 was chosen so it wasn’t necessary to find a decanter large enough to decant it!
I assume Bin 27 was chosen so it wasn’t necessary to find a decanter large enough to decant it!
- 12:49 Wed 03 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11949
Re: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
That’s excellent! Maybe not one for solo drinking, though.
Someone should ask the IVDP about the number on the selo. Or were you allowed to sell Port in 98-litre bottles in 1982?!
Someone should ask the IVDP about the number on the selo. Or were you allowed to sell Port in 98-litre bottles in 1982?!
- 20:09 Mon 01 May 2023
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2001 Penfolds Bin 707
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6309
Re: 2001 Penfolds Bin 707
Sorry: that was a Private Eye-esque 94 rather than an actual product in their range! My difficulty was that if I visit the Penfold’s site and narrow my options by looking at their Cab Sav wines (which are far less numerous than the Shiraz), it gives me the following: Max's Shiraz Cabernet; Bin 707; ...
- 09:22 Mon 01 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 49421
Re: 2021 Declarations
That surely can't be right from a winemaking point of view? You don't not declare a SQVP because you need the wines for tawny? Or perhaps the SQVP quality stuff is going into the LBV blends to free up wine for the tawnies? On re-reading this, the impression might have been given that I was arguing ...
- 14:56 Sat 29 Apr 2023
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: Barão de Vilar Cheaper DOCs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6060
Re: Barão de Vilar Cheaper DOCs
Barros is owned by Sogevinus, and Cristiano van Zeller (not of Barão de Vilar) owns the Van Zeller brand (along with his daughter, I think). Thanks. I thought it was something complex like that. Although I guess the fact that the Van Zeller brand is actually owned by someone with “van Zeller” in th...
- 14:51 Sat 29 Apr 2023
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: Barão de Vilar Cheaper DOCs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6060
Barão de Vilar Cheaper DOCs
I apologise in advance if I get the corporate structure wrong, but I think I am right in saying that Barão de Vilar is owned by a combination of the Barros and Van Zeller families who have bought various brands, including Feuerheerd. Although I am not quite clear if they also own the Barros and Van ...
- 21:20 Thu 27 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 49421
Re: 2021 Declarations
That surely can't be right from a winemaking point of view? You don't not declare a SQVP because you need the wines for tawny? Or perhaps the SQVP quality stuff is going into the LBV blends to free up wine for the tawnies? Incidentally, looking back on recent years, are TFP declaring SQVPs a little ...
- 08:40 Thu 20 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 49421
Re: 2021 Declarations
Graham's have posted on Twitter that they have declared a 2021 Stone Terraces, as predicted by Alex. They say they will bottle 4,800 75cl bottles and 280 tappit hens (225cl).
- 22:02 Fri 14 Apr 2023
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2001 Penfolds Bin 707
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6309
Re: 2001 Penfolds Bin 707
I appreciate this is probably a failure of mine but Penfolds is one of those companies that completely defeats me because of the number of wines they produce and their confusing names. Is the Bin 707 better than the Bin 94? Perhaps if I were a member of the Penfolds Club I would be able to tell...
- 21:57 Fri 14 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2020 Declarations
- Replies: 74
- Views: 41961
Re: 2020 Declarations
I am pleased to see has broken free of the linear progression of time
- 21:53 Fri 14 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 49421
Re: 2021 Declarations
From memory 2021 was quite a good year up until the harvest which was rather tricky. It started very early in late August but then the temperature dropped in September and there was quite a lot of rain. The impression was not of a classic vintage but for those producers who managed to pick the right...
- 21:26 Thu 13 Apr 2023
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Port Pie with Stilton and chilli
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9475
Re: Port Pie with Stilton and chilli
I was there. I can reassure you that it was not a "Port" Pie, it was an excellent Pork Pie adulterated with some sort of sludge in place of the usual delicious pastry topping. I remember declaring "Good God, NO!!!" when I heard Julian placing his order in the Leeson's Pork Pie E...
- 11:57 Wed 29 Mar 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: which are the biggest quintas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8573
Re: which are the biggest quintas?
They must be in order to make the beneficio system work, surely?
- 08:42 Wed 29 Mar 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: which are the biggest quintas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8573
Re: which are the biggest quintas?
Are there any large quintas away from the rivers which might be sizeable if not very famous for bulk production of grapes? Something like Quinta de Ervamoira (although I appreciate that that is used for making quality wines).
- 18:46 Thu 23 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 84440
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
Could I be put down as a “maybe”? I’m currently down to be either in Leeds or Birmingham during the day so I am not sure I will make it home in time but will try to join you if possible.
- 10:12 Wed 22 Mar 2023
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: Madeira for Beginners
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9381
Re: Madeira for Beginners
For example, whilst i knew that the regulation was problematic with usual issues like a bottle of Sercial not having to be exclusively Sercial That's pretty common in the wine industry, actually. In the US the normal limit is that at least 75% must be the as-labeled grape variety, but there are exc...
- 19:24 Tue 21 Mar 2023
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: Madeira for Beginners
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9381
Re: Madeira for Beginners
I bought a copy of Alex Liddell’s (of “Port Wine Quintas of the Douro” fame) book from 2014 called “Madeira: The Mid-Atlantic Wine”, published by Hurst & Co just before Christmas which I finally got around to reading. It is extremely good and I would highly recommend it. It sets out the extremel...
- 10:34 Tue 21 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tuke Holdsworth vertical (abandoned)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22850
Re: Tuke Holdsworth vertical (? TBC perhaps 21st Nov 2023)
Gosh. I had no idea they kept that brand going for so long. I had thought it had petered out 50+ years ago, although I suppose the declarations post 1963 were rather capricious!
Incidentally, there is a photo of a 2003 floating around on the web. I assume there is no reason for it to be a fake!
Incidentally, there is a photo of a 2003 floating around on the web. I assume there is no reason for it to be a fake!