As i have mentioned a few times on
, I would like to get a better sense on what non-Vintage Ports were historically available before the modern categories (Ruby, Tawny, TWIOA etc.) came in.
I appreciate that Julian, Derek and perhaps others have spent a lot of time in archives looking at all sorts of Port-related records.
Might I therefore tap the
collective wisdom to ask: has anyone come across an archives or libraries where one might find an easily-accessible good run of pre-modern price lists? I’m more than happy to do the hard work of locating this sort of thing myself, but if (for example) someone had found a run of BBR or Nickolls and Perks lists in the London Metropolitan Library, the British Library or something & I could use that short-circuit that initial investigation, I’d be very grateful.