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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.