Port for sale by retailer

Andy Velebil · Post by **Andy Velebil** » 13:00 Sun 30 Dec 2018

AHB wrote: ↑11:13 Sun 30 Dec 2018 My local Tesco has just stocked its shelves with the new Tesco Finest Vintage Port, this one is also from the Symingtons but is now the 2007 vintage. Still £20 a bottle (at full price). Next to it is the Malvedos 2004, currently reduced from £27.50 to also be £20 per bottle.

2004 Malvedos is very good. That's a steal at that price.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 06:47 Mon 15 Apr 2019

Sainsbury have their spring sale on - 25% off when you buy 6 bottles or more, including fortified and sparkling wines.

That makes the Taste the Difference Vintage Port £15 per bottle and the Sandeman Unfiltered LBV less that £13.

akzy · Post by **akzy** » 07:09 Mon 15 Apr 2019

AHB wrote: ↑06:47 Mon 15 Apr 2019 Sainsbury have their spring sale on - 25% off when you buy 6 bottles or more, including fortified and sparkling wines.

That makes the Taste the Difference Vintage Port £15 per bottle and the Sandeman Unfiltered LBV less that £13.

If I look online, the T&Cs (or if I try to make a 6 bottle basket) say all fortified wines are excluded. Have you taken advantage of this deal in store?

CPR 1 · Post by **CPR 1** » 09:09 Mon 15 Apr 2019

I think Sainsbury's have changed the T&C to exclude fortified from these offers at least 6 months ago now. Just Waitrose left now that still includes Port in these offers.

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Post by **flash_uk** » 17:20 Mon 15 Apr 2019

Yeah I was in the car today and heard a Sainsbury’s advert for this offer and it said fortified are excluded.

nac · Post by **nac** » 18:23 Tue 09 Jul 2019

Might be of interest...

Corney & Barrow have just listed three 12-bottle OWC cases of Malvedos 84 @ £790 DP.

Guess this is now fairly rare?

akzy · Post by **akzy** » 12:19 Mon 15 Jul 2019

Warre's LBV 2004/07 on sale as part of Amazon's prime day for £17.49.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warres-LBV-Por ... ROKL5A1OLE

Jasper May · Post by **Jasper May** » 14:28 Sat 24 Aug 2019

Asda online (I do not know about their branches) have Dow's Crusted Port on sale reduced from £18.00 to £13.50.

They are coy as to the bottling date (the image would suggest 2003 or 2005 - the last number is partially obscured), but it may well be a later bottling.

I have ordered some as future cellar defenders, and will advise the bottling date when they arrive.

One irritant is that they will only supply 6 bottles per order, but since they charged me £2.00 per delivery I just made multiple orders.

DaveRL · Post by **DaveRL** » 18:38 Sat 24 Aug 2019

M&S have their own brand Vintage Port a third off at £18, reduced to clear. Bought the last one, a 2011 (they've also recently had 2007). Reduced to clear, rather than simply reduced, sounded ominous.

rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 20:49 Sat 24 Aug 2019

Jasper May wrote: ↑14:28 Sat 24 Aug 2019 Asda online (I do not know about their branches) have Dow's Crusted Port on sale reduced from £18.00 to £13.50.

They are coy as to the bottling date (the image would suggest 2003 or 2005 - the last number is partially obscured), but it may well be a later bottling.

I have ordered some as future cellar defenders, and will advise the bottling date when they arrive.

One irritant is that they will only supply 6 bottles per order, but since they charged me £2.00 per delivery I just made multiple orders.

I grabbed the bottle they had at my local Asda, bottling date is 2012. At that price is it worth grabbing more if I see it? I assume so!

DaveRL · Post by **DaveRL** » 22:12 Sat 24 Aug 2019

Crusted should be better than LBV, even unfiltered LBV. I would think that you can't go wrong at that price. To be sure, try a bottle? Certainly I'm now tempted myself.

Jasper May · Post by **Jasper May** » 00:29 Tue 27 Aug 2019

Asda delivered 12 bottles today - 4 of which were Dows Crusted 2012 - the others Cockburn 2013 LBV and Taylors Reserve Ruby, despite my having specified no substitutions. 8 bottles were politely rejected.

I hold out very little hope for the 24 bottles due tomorrow

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Tarne · Post by **Tarne** » 09:52 Tue 27 Aug 2019

ASDA have advertised Crusted Port for a considerable time but only once have I found it in the stores I've visited.

For many months I have occasionally attempted to order on-line but on each occasion I’ve been stopped in the ordering process - usually after inputting my post code or signing into my account the system reports the product as "unavailable".

ASDA have not acknowledged or replied to my complaint that it should not continue to advertise a product which cannot be ordered or found in their stores.

So, I wish you joy of the four you have managed to purchase at £13.50/bottle. The three bottles, also 2012, which I found by chance after dropping into their Slough store, almost two years ago, were delicious and good value at £18.50

rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 19:15 Tue 27 Aug 2019

Tarne wrote:ASDA have advertised Crusted Port for a considerable time but only once have I found it in the stores I've visited.

For many months I have occasionally attempted to order on-line but on each occasion I’ve been stopped in the ordering process - usually after inputting my post code or signing into my account the system reports the product as "unavailable".

ASDA have not acknowledged or replied to my complaint that it should not continue to advertise a product which cannot be ordered or found in their stores.

So, I wish you joy of the four you have managed to purchase at £13.50/bottle. The three bottles, also 2012, which I found by chance after dropping into their Slough store, almost two years ago, were delicious and good value at £18.50

It definitely depends on the store, this thread reminded me to go back and check my local store and I found 6 bottles on at the same price so cleaned them out. Good luck with the hunt!

rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 12:10 Wed 28 Aug 2019

Amazon UK currently selling Grahams 10 YO tawny for £13.50.

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rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 11:46 Thu 05 Sep 2019

DaveRL wrote:M&S have their own brand Vintage Port a third off at £18, reduced to clear. Bought the last one, a 2011 (they've also recently had 2007). Reduced to clear, rather than simply reduced, sounded ominous.

I found the 2007 M&S VP on sale in Moorgate for £6 a bottle! Obviously bought as much as I can get back to Bristol, might still be some there if anyone is in the area.

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Alex M · Post by **Alex M** » 18:44 Fri 06 Sep 2019

M and S 2007 VP scanning at £6 but label reads £18.
Warre 2001 QdC scanning at £10 but label reads £33.

All in a local M and S.

DaveRL · Post by **DaveRL** » 19:19 Fri 06 Sep 2019

£6 is awesome, and the Warre also v good price. I didn't check what price mine scanned at (I sneaked it in to a basket bought by Mrs L, and didn't get the receipt). I think I might nip down to M&S tomorrow, thanks

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rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 12:33 Sat 07 Sep 2019

Alex M wrote:M and S 2007 VP scanning at £6 but label reads £18.
Warre 2001 QdC scanning at £10 but label reads £33.

All in a local M and S.

Sadly couldn't find the Warre but will continue to look out for it, thanks!

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winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 16:22 Sat 07 Sep 2019

@ rich_n & Alex M: thank you. I have acquired twenty bottles of startlingly cheap port today. There is now none of either the M&S 2007 VP or the Warre 2001 QdC left in the Islington, Moorgate or Marble Arch stores. There is still some Warre 2001 QdC left in the Oxford Street (Pantheon) store.

I also bought a bag of salad.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:16 Sat 07 Sep 2019

winesecretary wrote: ↑16:22 Sat 07 Sep 2019I also bought a bag of salad.

Schoolboy error.

winesecretary wrote: ↑16:22 Sat 07 Sep 2019@ rich_n & Alex M: thank you. I have acquired twenty bottles of startlingly cheap port today. There is now none of either the M&S 2007 VP or the Warre 2001 QdC left in the Islington, Moorgate or Marble Arch stores. There is still some Warre 2001 QdC left in the Oxford Street (Pantheon) store.

Thank you for the warning. Some of those stores were intended targets. Meanwhile, reports are coming in of empty shelves in Streatham and Brixton, accompanied by the usual business of rioting in the streets and the police being attacked with bags of salad.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:37 Sat 07 Sep 2019

A correspondent in Bournemouth reports of an “Outbreak of panic drinking to make space in wine fridge!”

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:55 Sun 08 Sep 2019

A sortie being conducted in Wandsworth.

rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 12:56 Sun 08 Sep 2019

I tried 2 in Bristol with no luck, sadly.

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winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 13:16 Sun 08 Sep 2019

I can report Wimbledon is sans bargainous port (helas).

Post by **DRT** » 16:25 Mon 09 Sep 2019

M&S in Meadowhall, Sheffield is now 25 bottles lighter than it was at 4pm today

akzy · Post by **akzy** » 18:14 Mon 09 Sep 2019

All shops near Brighton seem empty

I've organised a search party for Lancashire/ North Yorkshire.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:46 Mon 09 Sep 2019

Marks & Spencers in Camberley and Bracknell are now bereft of Vintage Port

idj123 · Post by **idj123** » 06:50 Tue 10 Sep 2019

AHB wrote: ↑21:46 Mon 09 Sep 2019 Marks & Spencers in Camberley and Bracknell are now bereft of Vintage Port

Yes, inspected the Camberley store on Sunday. Guildford is also out (which is a bit annoying as when I was in there a couple of weeks ago they had loads of the Warre in a central offer position but when I enquired whether they were on offer I was told 'no'- clearly they were readying them for sell off).

Fortunately, I have managed to relieve the Reading store of its last 4 bottles of the Warre (and I had to ask as the spaces on the shelves were empty). Sent a colleague round to the nearby Woodley store last night to no avail.

rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 11:40 Tue 10 Sep 2019

Bristol Cribbs Causeway is now out of 2007 M&S Vintage, might still have a few bottles of Warre left as I couldn't manage everything they had!

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Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 12:54 Fri 13 Sep 2019

Milton Keynes had some (eight bottles) Royal Palace 2002 coheita left @ £6 when I walked out of the store yesterday. They had no Vintage Port or Cavadinha left.

idj123 · Post by **idj123** » 17:40 Fri 13 Sep 2019

Have sent out emissaries (aka work colleagues) to scour the interior and to not return until they are successful!

On a different note Sainsbury’s have the 2003 TTD at £12 and the GM2005 at £16.80-both ‘to clear ‘.

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:12 Sat 14 Sep 2019

Brixton reloaded. Brixton re-emptied.

idj123 · Post by **idj123** » 10:30 Sun 15 Sep 2019

The emissaries are beginning to report back; two bottles of the Warre (perhaps the last of the species in the South) have been located and collected in Poole. I fear they all maybe EW (extinct in the wild) very shortly.

DaveRL · Post by **DaveRL** » 14:57 Sun 15 Sep 2019

idj123 wrote:On a different note Sainsbury’s have the 2003 TTD at £12 and the GM2005 at £16.80-both ‘to clear ‘.

At my local Sainsbury's all Port is full price

Will · Post by **Will** » 19:33 Sun 15 Sep 2019

Thought I would register on this forum to thank whoever posted the tip around the M&S deal. I managed to pick up the last 6 bottles of the vintage port on the shelves at the Brixton M&S on my way home Friday. I will keep an eye out for more.

I only started drinking Port last year when I got hold 12 bottles of Grahams Quinta dos Malvedos that had been bought for my birth, that had been hidden away in Northern Ireland for me. Despite having no idea where or how they had been stored (had been given to my aunt's, friend's, granddad's dog etc to store), the bottle I had last Xmas was delicious, and I have been slowly accumulating more bottles since (Mainly LBVs, and the odd cheap vintage port I come across). Not sure where I will store my increasing collection in my small London flat, but good problem to have.

Justin K · Post by **Justin K** » 22:14 Sun 15 Sep 2019

Managed to secure last bottles in Lisburn store, 4 M&S and 5 Warre’s.

rich_n · Post by **rich_n** » 14:10 Mon 16 Sep 2019

Will wrote: ↑19:33 Sun 15 Sep 2019 Thought I would register on this forum to thank whoever posted the tip around the M&S deal. I managed to pick up the last 6 bottles of the vintage port on the shelves at the Brixton M&S on my way home Friday. I will keep an eye out for more.

I only started drinking Port last year when I got hold 12 bottles of Grahams Quinta dos Malvedos that had been bought for my birth, that had been hidden away in Northern Ireland for me. Despite having no idea where or how they had been stored (had been given to my aunt's, friend's, granddad's dog etc to store), the bottle I had last Xmas was delicious, and I have been slowly accumulating more bottles since (Mainly LBVs, and the odd cheap vintage port I come across). Not sure where I will store my increasing collection in my small London flat, but good problem to have.

You are welcome Will! Glad it helped you get some decent VP/SQVP for your collection.

Cribbs Causeway in Bristol had stock come back in and I've cleaned them back out again. 7 more bottles and now I think that might be it for me on the M&S 2007 VP front. Sadly no Warre's, but I probably have enough (I know, I know, "define enough") of those to keep me happy.

idj123 · Post by **idj123** » 17:36 Mon 16 Sep 2019

DaveRL wrote: ↑14:57 Sun 15 Sep 2019
idj123 wrote:On a different note Sainsbury’s have the 2003 TTD at £12 and the GM2005 at £16.80-both ‘to clear ‘.
At my local Sainsbury's all Port is full price

Yes, odd that- it appears to be very localised as the GM was at the full price at two other stores.

winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 21:11 Tue 17 Sep 2019

For those that have not already filled their racks, there has been some limited restocking of the M&S 2007. I was trudging home along Oxford Street this evening, exhausted after a dispiriting meeting in the West End, and thought I would pop into the Pantheon store again just in case. I was not so exhausted, I found, that I could not carry home the seven bottles that greeted me there.

idj123 · Post by **idj123** » 17:08 Wed 18 Sep 2019

winesecretary wrote: ↑21:11 Tue 17 Sep 2019 For those that have not already filled their racks, there has been some limited restocking of the M&S 2007. I was trudging home along Oxford Street this evening, exhausted after a dispiriting meeting in the West End, and thought I would pop into the Pantheon store again just in case. I was not so exhausted, I found, that I could not carry home the seven bottles that greeted me there.

Rats! I was in Town for a meeting yesterday and visited the Fenchurch street branch on my way back but it was barren. If I had known I would have made a detour.

winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 22:40 Sat 21 Sep 2019

The restocking is both increasingly limited and increasingly idiosyncratic; the rewards are getting thinner but, I hope, so am I; today's reward, for about twelve miles of walking between central London M&S branches, was two bottles of the 2011 vintage @ £6 each (and 5 halves of excellent Lustau-made Dry Oloroso @ £4 each).

Will · Post by **Will** » 18:54 Wed 25 Sep 2019

I've had some good luck with M&S this week. Popped to Oxfordstreet monday evening, nothing in Marble Arch (although still a space for it, and had some reduced sherry), but picked up 5 bottles of the 2011 at the one near Oxford Circus. Also had luck tonight at Brixton on way home, picking up another 7 bottles (mix of 2011 and 2007). Not had any luck on the Cavadinha. Have now got approximately 20 bottles to enjoy. Currently in the middle of a flat move so they are cramping up my living room. Will crack open a bottle this weekend.

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:59 Wed 09 Oct 2019

Urgent call to action.

Marks & Spencer LBV, 2012 or 2013, £7 per magnum.

winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 19:45 Wed 09 Oct 2019

Magnums not on the shelves in Finsbury Square or Pantheon stores. My trawls were not in the least a waste of time, however, since the latter did (note past tense) have six bottles of 2007 vintage and three bottles of 2011 vintage, all of which still scanned at £6...

Zhukov · Post by **Zhukov** » 20:57 Wed 09 Oct 2019

7 quid for a magnum of LBV? That's an incredible price!

Post by **jdaw1** » 10:40 Fri 11 Oct 2019

Nine of the 2011 appeared at Brixton.

This is crazy: 2011s at 1,440/- per dozen!

winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 13:36 Fri 11 Oct 2019

Another 10 x 2011 (or, to use JDAW's deliciously archaic notation, 1200/- worth; I say archaic because the book suggests 8 year old vintage port could be had this cheap as late as 1983) acquired this lunchtime from Marble Arch; this included four from a stand next to the cheese aisle, which I hadn't thought to check previously.

winesecretary · Post by **winesecretary** » 20:49 Fri 11 Oct 2019

Warre Quinta da Cavadinha 2004 now 'on offer' at £24.99 in Waitrose. Seems a lot after the £10 bottles of the 2001 we all hoovered up in M&S but in truth it's not a bad price for a SQVP that's starting to drink. Plus, Offley pink for £9.99 for those that like such things...

Justin K · Post by **Justin K** » 22:05 Fri 11 Oct 2019

Well the good news is that, finally, M & S have extended the sale to Dublin stores. Unfortunately Martin Moran MW (writes in Irish Times) tipped off his buddies and they triolleyed out quantities of 2007, 2011 and Q da C. Stilll got 4 2011’s (now have a bottle for the 2051 tasting) and 2 20 year old tawnies, all at €9.00 each.