Favor to ask my fellow tpf'ers

[g-man]

If someone is fortunate to have a bottle of 45 dow can someone send me a picture of the bottle and capsule please?

[g-man]

Or if anyone knows how the neck of a 45 port should look like, that would be most appreciated.

The bottle I'm currently looking to pick up has a rather ballooned neck like picture shown here
http://www.bamfords-auctions.co.uk/cati ... HA1339.jpg

but all of the older dow's I've seen had a relatively straight neck flowing into the bottle.

[DRT]

g-man,

I don't think there will be a definite answer to your question. Up to the 1970s it is perfectly normal to find the same wine in different bottles due to it being shipped in Pipes and bottled in the UK or elsewhere. Each merchant, club, university college etc would source their own bottles and, on ocassion, re-use empty bottles from earlier vintages.

The bottle in the picture looks fine to me. If everything else points to this being a Warre 1945 I don't think you should be worried about the shape of the bottle

Derek

[g-man]

heh, the bottle I'm looking at is a believed to be bottled of Dow 45, it's priced at auction + premium right now at a retail shop.

All it has is a regular auction house label saying dow 45. Not sure to pull the trigger or not at 500$

[Alex Bridgeman]

The ballooned neck is quite normal for the 1945 vintage - the Morgan 1945 has exactly that shape bottle, for example.

$500 for a 1945 vintage is quite expensive, but not unreasonably so and they are very unlikely to come up that often so it's a question of whether you have the disposable income to spare right now and would like to add the bottle to your collection.

...and then the next time you have a really tough week at work you have something to open on Friday night!