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We visited and stayed at Quinta de Vent0zelo last March and irc they have circa 400 hectares but not sure how much of this is under vine.

4 x Taylor’s 1983

Sure you’d have to

YouTube and Zoom; looking forward to it but I have a zoom meeting at 6.00 so will arrive late!

Well I got diddly squat, I knew they wouldn't send wine to the Republic (they closed their foodhall in Dublin because of Brexit) so I was diverting it to Northern Ireland (message said they couldn't send wine there either). I'd say the Unionist community is furious!

I would also like to attend virtually and I'll be bringing, virtually, the best bottle of Port I can find

an Aldi Bekka Valley wine from Lebanon, I didn’t realise this existed. Does the bottle say who made it? They Aldi website is unhelpful... I don’t think I can compete with many of the selections here. Sparkling wines included a Sussex champagne-blend by Albury which was new to me. Attractive but tas...

Light Christmas Day lunch with a bottle of Rathfinny ‘17 Classic Cuvée which, despite its Irish sounding name, is actually from Sussex. Our first time departing from traditional Champagne; it won’t be our last, light and refreshing. Not mad about turkey so cooked a côte de boeuf and opened an Aldi B...

uncle tom wrote: ↑16:48 Sun 11 Dec 2022 The centenarian bottle I am pulling for the Xmas bash next week will reduce the average of the VP in my cellar by 3 days, 20hrs and 20 minutes..

Julian is that enough information for you to calculate how many bottles in Tom's cellar?

Maybe we need a section dedicated to Auction houses and problems and praises connected to them. When I started buying Port at auction, in the late 1980's, buyers commission was typically 8% in Ireland and vendors paid 10%. Nowadays it's common to pay up to 29% as a buyer and vendors up to 25%. Aucti...

Aldi is launching their Christmas range here in Ireland from tomorrow. Fletcher’s 40 year old tawny is back. Slow seller here but I know it disappeared quickly on mainland UK last year so this is a heads up to all you tawny nuts (Glenn if you want a bottle I’ll pick one up for you but I don’t know w...

I'll have to give this a miss as can't be away from home on December 1st. and I'm too old to be poured on to a plane late at night!

Sounds good count me in.

Date depending would be interested

Berry Bros. (Warres)
Graham
Quarles Harris

Virtually willing

idj123 wrote: ↑08:43 Fri 15 Jul 2022

Justin K wrote: ↑23:18 Thu 14 Jul 2022 32 x Grahams Crusted 2013 @ £10 in Sainsbury's

Way to go Justin-sounds as though you cleared the shelves!

I clearly live in a deprived area (of Port) as my local Sainsbury’s no longer stocks the Crusted

I left 59 bottles behind!

32 x Grahams Crusted 2013 @ £10 in Sainsbury's

Great find. You can make it even better with a £15 off £60 if you're a new customer or happen to stumble upon a new email... https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/get-ideas/voucher-codes I wish I’d known that when I picked up 8 bottles @ £12 yesterday (see latest buy).

Sainsburys dropped their price on the Graham’s Crusted to £13 (actually £12 in the store that I visited) so I bought all they had (8) as I bought a few before Christmas and I gave away a few to friends (how sad am I? Still trying to convert them to the dark side!) and they all said it went down well...

I bought a bottle of their Ruby Port years ago and thought it was also very good value. Do they pay a little more for their blend than the supermarkets I wonder? I haven’t bought their own label champagne but I have had it at a Christmas bash a few years back (the year you came down to us) and the o...

Only seeing this now Alex I would have been on for a chat, next time perhaps? Short but sweet (pardon the pun).

I'm in but all I have is a half bottle of Cockburn's 1950!

A couple of nights ago I caught the end of an episode of Heartbeat (Niamh Cusack!), didn't manage to grasp the storyline but someone seemed to be stealing Port and selling it on the cheap. The coppers caught them loading cases (Warres) on to a truck and in the execution of their duty they caused a w...

6 x Malvedos 1995
3 x Cockburns 2000

Bought at auction.

I see I am now a 'Martinez 1985'. By coincidence I have a case of it arriving tomorrow. Hurrah! Wait. Is that how it is supposed to work? Where is my case of Dalva Golden White 1952?!? No, it defines what you have to bring to share with others at the next informal. Ooh, this is good for me. Yup I t...