Does its cork agree with your buying habitsAHB wrote:(Yeatman 1991 @ €31 - and it's not Morgan since we bought it all).
Village name corrected! Thank you.
I didn’t realise under weights and measures in licensing that you could sell 70ml. When I was working in pubs, port and sherry were sold at a standard double measure or multiples of that. Over the years I have had to convince some pubs that a glass of port was 50ml as a standard and not 25ml... and then obviously order a double standard measure!
A hotel with an old fashioned outdoor pool. 5 miles down the road from me! And with a direct train from Reigate. You didn’t need to drink alone!DRT wrote:The Mercure Hotel at Box Hill, Burford Bridge has the following to offer...
Cockburn's Fine Ruby - £4.95/70ml, £35 per bottle
Graham's LBV 2012 - £6.95/70ml, £55 per bottle
Graham's 10yr Tawny - £6.95/70ml, £55 per bottle
I will remember that the next time I stay there!
Please do name the pub! We used to frequent the Davy Holborn Wine Cellar (known as the Bung Hole when we used to visit) and drank in a few of the nearby pubs from time to time. Which is the pub that mugs you and then tries to cheer you up with a glass of ale?Spotter Brown wrote: ↑16:58 Tue 11 Dec 2018 At the Don Restaurant if you ask them nicely they will show you the original cellars, they even gave my wife and I a free glass of tawny each. As for Vintage Ports I saw last week a single opened bottle of Grahams 2000 in a High Holborn pub that specialises in beers, I asked the barman who advised me he had never seen anyone drinking a glass nor had he ever sold any. I didn't try risking it as they had already mugged us with £7.45 for a pint of a 4.2% keg beer.
Had a lovely lunch there last week, a real gem of a place with a very good selection of wines by the glass as well.AHB wrote: ↑19:33 Thu 29 Mar 2018 But I think the award for London’s most impressive vintage port list has got to go to Bar Douro, which offers:
Churchill Ruby Reserve @ £34
Churchill White Port (50cl) @ £40 - this is basically a 10YO white
Churchill 10YO Tawny (50cl) @ £45
Churchill 2011 LBV @ £46
Churchill 20YO Tawny (50cl) @ £62
Churchill Quinta da Gricha 2012 @ £86
Churchill 1997 @ £105
Morgan 1991 @ £115
Fonseca Guimaraens 1988 @ £185
Dow 1985 @ £155
Noval 1982 @ £145
Warre 1975 @ £140
Fonseca 1970 @ £300
Warre 1970 @ £210
Gould Campbell 1966 @ £250
Taylor 1966 @ £275
Taylor 1963 @ £310
Gonzalez Byass 1955 @ £380
Has anyone seen a better list in London?
It’s why phone cameras were invented.
I did have a very similar conversation with the sommelier. I felt their pricing policy was out and that their Port list was unbalanced, really needing something bottle aged and significantly older than 2004. Perhaps this was why Warre bottle aged LBV was invented - that's what's missing from their list. Warre LBV from the 1980s.
Like I said, I was so taken by the Le Haut-Lieu Moelluex 1993 that the rest of the world disappeared from my perception. Phones were irrelevant. Port was irrelevant. All that was important was the colour and smell of the wine in my glass...
I've tried Vouvray a few times now and never been mightily impressed. That being said, the colour of that is just a sight to behold. Will give it a hunt - cheers Alex.Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑10:55 Tue 29 Jun 2021 All that was important was the colour and smell of the wine in my glass...
White Kopke Fine White £6.20 / £15.50/ £46.50 Nieeport White Rabbit – Dry £6.95/ £17.25 / £51.75 Churchills Dry White (50cl) £7.50 / £18.75 / £37.50 Kopke 10 year old White (37.5cl) £11.00 / £27.50 / £46.00 Kopke White Colheita 2008 £11.50 / £28.35 / £85.00 Kopke 30 year old White (37.5cl) £21.35 / £53.35 / £80.00 Tawny Niepoort Tawny Dee £6.95 / £17.25 / £51.75 Kopke 10 year old Tawny £7.20 / £18.00 / £54.00 Quinta do Noval 10 year old Tawny £8.75 / £21.90 / £65.00 Barros Colheita 2005 £10.90 / £27.25 / £81.50 Dows Fine Tawny £32.00 Grahams 20 years old Tawny £95.00 Ruby Churchills Reserve £43.50 Grahams Six Grapes Reserve £6.60 / £16.50 / £49.50 LBV Kopke LBV 2014 £6.90 / £17.25 / £51.75 Churchills LBV 2015 £52.00 Quinta do Crasto LBV 2014 £6.50 / £16.25 / £48.00 Quinta de la Rosa LBV 2014 (50cl) £52.00 Crusted Nieeport Crusted Port 2014 £8.75 / £21.90 / £65.00 Churchills Crusted Port 2005 £63.00 Vintage Warre's Quinta da Cavadinha 2004 £10.50/ £26.25 / £78.00 Quinta do Vesuvio 2003 Vintage £145.00 Nieeport Bioma 2013 Vintage £152.00
I've been to the one on the Strand and enjoyed it each time.JacobH wrote: ↑09:08 Fri 23 Jul 2021 Save for one aspect, I think it is hard to fault their selection of Ports: they have 15 available by the glass covering a really nice range of producers, types and prices. That one aspect is how little Vintage Port they have. I’m really surprised they don’t have both a young SQ(VP) and full VP by the glass and a few older ones by the bottle, too.
I’ve only tried the 2013 which, from taste alone, didn’t seem to me to be more than a standard SQVP. Is it a premium over the classic Sandeman VP blend?
Dirk has always made the Bioma as a super-selected, super-special super-cuvée with the intention that’s its quality would be at least as good as the other wines in this flight. Recently Niepoort have changed its pricing and market positioning to better reflect its quality and rarity. New releases of Bioma are sitting more in line with - or markedly above - the other super-cuvée Ports.
I can’t see anyone selling a decent range of Niepoort recent releases to get a good feel for prices, but I’m generally getting c.£80 for the 2016 Bioma and c.£70 for the 2019 VP. I think that was the sort of price difference I paid when I bought the 2011. Have they made any since 2016? What sorts of prices are they going for now?Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑08:09 Mon 06 Feb 2023 Dirk has always made the Bioma as a super-selected, super-special super-cuvée with the intention that’s its quality would be at least as good as the other wines in this flight. Recently Niepoort have changed its pricing and market positioning to better reflect its quality and rarity. New releases of Bioma are sitting more in line with - or markedly above - the other super-cuvée Ports.
Have a look at the Bioma prices in the Niepoort lodge next time you’re in Oporto to see what I mean.
