One quiz at a time

Post by **flash_uk** » 09:14 Sat 27 Dec 2014

Bushmills, Whiskey.

Post by **flash_uk** » 09:14 Sat 27 Dec 2014

Oops. Had not seen that we had moved onto another page!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:22 Tue 30 Dec 2014

I'm taking this back since Owen's so tardy. An André-themed question: what bottle of sherry have I opened? Name the producer and the style please.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 00:33 Wed 31 Dec 2014

This can only be a Palo Cortado. By Lustau?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:59 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Produced by Lustau, yes, but sold as a BOB by Sainsbury's. Not a Palo Cortado.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 14:26 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Hm, if it were my turn, then I would guess the sherry we drank in the Mosel. But, alas, it is not my turn.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:02 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Lustau old East India Solera. Go Andre!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:17 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Incorrect!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:01 Sat 03 Jan 2015

I'm still drinking it. It's lovely.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 21:22 Sat 03 Jan 2015

PX. I think you mentioned in the past that you like this jam-like nectar.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:36 Sat 03 Jan 2015

Not PX.

Post by **DRT** » 22:56 Sat 03 Jan 2015

Sweet?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:36 Sat 03 Jan 2015

The wine society medium sweet oloroso?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 00:22 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Amontillado?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 01:09 Sun 04 Jan 2015

LGTrotter wrote:The wine society medium sweet oloroso?

I already said it was from Sainsbury's. But yes, it's an Oloroso - the Lustau Sainsbury's Oloroso Blend. Good gear. Your go.

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:41 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Owen: please may I snatch question-mastership from you? (That is not quiz question; it is a question directed only to Owen.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 13:21 Sun 04 Jan 2015

jdaw1 wrote:Owen: please may I snatch question-mastership from you? (That is not quiz question; it is a question directed only to Owen.)

Go ahead, I have no question.

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:26 Sun 04 Jan 2015

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=86525#p86525]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Another question for our resident handwriting experts.

What is the Port being described?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 13:31 Sun 04 Jan 2015

A tawny port, or at least one of those dated barrels which turned up. 1900 Krohn?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:36 Sun 04 Jan 2015

I surmise that since this is a note taken by the Man from Christie's, the date will be c.1975 or slightly later. I think the fact that the note taker stresses that it is browny rather than tawny is a red (ahem) herring. This is perhaps a wine that would have been in its tertiary phase in the 1970s; a 1904 maybe? 'Bite' suggests some tannins that have lingered long (although it could just be alcohol); anyway I'll guess Dow.

Post by **PhilW** » 13:38 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Dalva 1934 (heading out shortly, no more guesses from me for a while)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:49 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Well? We know you're there. Question master, lama sabachthani?

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:50 Sun 04 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:I surmise that since this is a note taken by the Man from Christie's, the date will be c.1975 or slightly later.

The image’s filename, “20150104_19760212_TN_1.png”, might allow the attentive to know the auction date.

Not 1904. Not 1934. An interesting Port.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:08 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Is it a 19th century port?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:20 Sun 04 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Is it a 19th century port?

No. Twentieth century.

I have tasted VP from this shipper, many times — many, and too few — but not of this vintage.

Post by **DRT** » 14:57 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Taylor 1920?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:24 Sun 04 Jan 2015

DRT wrote:Taylor 1920?

Best guess so far, but no.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:45 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Taylor 1917.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:51 Sun 04 Jan 2015

LGTrotter wrote:Taylor 1917.

The vintage slightly further from correct, but the brand neither more nor less correct.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:10 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Is it a supposedly undeclared year? Taylor 1923? (Neither more nor less correct.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:45 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Croft 35.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:57 Sun 04 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Is it a supposedly undeclared year?

Oooh, missus!

djewesbury wrote:Taylor 1923? (Neither more nor less correct.)

You are missing something. And the year is wrong.

Post by **DRT** » 23:58 Sun 04 Jan 2015

Quinta do Noval Crusted 1961?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:04 Mon 05 Jan 2015

DRT wrote:Quinta do Noval Crusted 1961?

That tawny? In 1976? Really?

And your brand is a much worse guess.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 01:19 Mon 05 Jan 2015

Fonseca, the mystical 1921.

Post by **jdaw1** » 08:44 Mon 05 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Fonseca, the mystical 1921.

Wrong house, wrong year.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 09:39 Mon 05 Jan 2015

Browny rather than tawny? Maybe a Colheita.

Random guess based on the above, probably flawed, logic. Krohn 1927

Post by **jdaw1** » 09:50 Mon 05 Jan 2015

JWEW wrote:Browny rather than tawny? Maybe a Colheita.

Random guess based on the above, probably flawed, logic. Krohn 1927

Year is close, but nobody is reading carefully the clues about the shipper.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:03 Mon 05 Jan 2015

jdaw1 wrote:
JWEW wrote:Browny rather than tawny? Maybe a Colheita.

Random guess based on the above, probably flawed, logic. Krohn 1927
Year is close, but nobody is reading carefully the clues about the shipper.

That is a familiar pattern with your 'clues'.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 12:23 Mon 05 Jan 2015

Sandeman

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:28 Mon 05 Jan 2015

JWEW wrote:Sandeman

No.

jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:Taylor 1920?
Best guess so far, but no.

jdaw1 wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Taylor 1917.
The vintage slightly further from correct, but the brand neither more nor less correct.

djewesbury wrote:That is a familiar pattern with your 'clues'.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:27 Mon 05 Jan 2015

That's the extent of your clues? That Taylor is the best guess? You're right, nobody is reading that correctly. Nobody has achieved the level of transcendental enlightenment through which you view the totality though.

Post by **flash_uk** » 14:04 Mon 05 Jan 2015

Taylor 1921
I mean 1922

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:05 Mon 05 Jan 2015

OK. Taylor is the closest guess yet. Some have explored this clue by looking at names associated with Taylor: Krohn, Fonseca, etc. This has not revealed anything meaningful. Julian has had this shipper many times but never this vintage. Is it an undeclared vintage, I asked, which received a Frankie Howerd noise in response.

I think this is an undeclared vintage, but I don't know offhand what vintages were undeclared early in the century. Perhaps it was a wartime vintage; that would make it suitably unusual.

A shipper associated with Taylor other than ones acquired by TFP, recently or historically? Perhaps before exhausting that option I'll say Croft. 1915?

Post by **flash_uk** » 14:10 Mon 05 Jan 2015

I wonder if the shipper is Taylor but the port is Vargellas. In which case, it could be a 1921, as I think Taylor did not declare in that year. But was the practice of SQVP in non-declared years established in those times? I don't know.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:11 Mon 05 Jan 2015

flash_uk wrote:I wonder if the shipper is Taylor but the port is Vargellas. In which case, it could be a 1921, as I think Taylor did not declare in that year. But was the practice of SQVP in non-declared years established in those times? I don't know.

Yes, of course this is what it must be.
Vargellas 1917.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 14:24 Mon 05 Jan 2015

jdaw1 wrote:
I have tasted VP from this shipper, many times — many, and too few — but not of this vintage.

I assume this is a clue, as is the usage of the word brand in several of the other replies.

Or am I now so confused that I'm seeing hints everywhere?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:25 Mon 05 Jan 2015

We're all confused. Guess away.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 14:37 Mon 05 Jan 2015

Quinta do Retiro Novo 1926

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:52 Mon 05 Jan 2015

JWEW wrote:Quinta do Retiro Novo 1926

The year is wrong, but in accuracy second only to the correct year. (Not second-equal: clues, clues!) And well done for going single-Q, but not that one.