I have three magnums of Warre 1977 that I would like to sell.
I bought these in the early 1980's and they have been stored in my wine rack ever since - undisturbed for the last 16 years.
Conditions in cool home temperature - not in a cellar. I live in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds near Lechlade.
Please advise best options.
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Please can you post pictures that showppkman wrote:I have three magnums of Warre 1977 that I would like to sell.
I bought these in the early 1980's and they have been stored in my wine rack ever since - undisturbed for the last 16 years.
Conditions in cool home temperature - not in a cellar. I live in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds near Lechlade.
Please advise best options.
Ppkman +
- the level of the wine in the bottle
- the general condition of the bottles
- the state of the capsules - is there any leakage or seepage?
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Is the wine rack in a normal room in the house, in which case the bottles will have been between (say) 16 and 22 fairly constantly all the time they've been with you?
Have you read our standard advice (a sticky on the Selling Port page) to sellers - since you're selling privately, you should not expect to get full retail price; typically, private sales, at auction or otherwise, get about half of retail (bear in mind that prices listed on wine-searcher exclude duty and VAT also). Often the prices you can get are not very high and the option of drinking the port yourself may be preferable, if you can stomach it..
But this is an interesting lot and depending on the condition there could be interest.
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Geoff, have sent you another PM..
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Gone to a good home, well at least mine is good can't vouch for the other two. This could turn out to be a long term adoption rather than a fostering!
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Good man Justin. I look forward to finding the occasion to savour this soon...Justin K wrote:Gone to a good home, well at least mine is good can't vouch for the other two. This could turn out to be a long term adoption rather than a fostering!
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Or a bad home, where it will be used to smite the first representative of any political party to present themselves at my door in pursuance of the 2015 general election.
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If you could let me have your address, I will be there to extol the virtues of, and to represent, each and every political party offering candidates in the 2015 general election. I can bring glasses and a corkscrew if it would help.LGTrotter wrote:Or a bad home, where it will be used to smite the first representative of any political party to present themselves at my door in pursuance of the 2015 general election.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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As AHB goes through his repertoire of representing each party I am happy to play the Alastair Darling to his Alex Salamander.AHB wrote:If you could let me have your address, I will be there to extol the virtues of, and to represent, each and every political party offering candidates in the 2015 general election. I can bring glasses and a corkscrew if it would help.LGTrotter wrote:Or a bad home, where it will be used to smite the first representative of any political party to present themselves at my door in pursuance of the 2015 general election.
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