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uncle tom wrote: ↑17:50 Wed 14 Jul 2021 Checking a few recent auction results - it looks like prices are coming off the boil. Not quite low enough to get me buying younger vintages yet, but vintages like '70 and '77 are not far off their pre-pandemic prices.

Does coming off the boil mean that prices drop? Sorry for asking, but english isn't my mother tongue

Does coming off the boil mean that prices drop?

'Coming off the boil' is used to mean a situation where the pressure to progress has gone away.

In the context of prices, it means stalling or going back to where they had recently been before rising. In a political or administrative context it might be used to indicate a situation where enthusiasm for a project or regulatory change has diminished - e.g. 'Following the discovery of costly geological problems, enthusiasm for building the tunnel has come off the boil'

uncle tom wrote:Checking a few recent auction results - it looks like prices are coming off the boil. Not quite low enough to get me buying younger vintages yet, but vintages like '70 and '77 are not far off their pre-pandemic prices.

Interesting. That would suggest it really was people sitting at home and feeling bored on online auctions that was driving the prices!

I am not sure I agree, I think there is just more Port on the market which has pushed prices down a bit in certain areas

Bought a couple of bottles each of Dow's, Graham's, Vesúvio, and Noval. All 2003 VP. Decent price, too.

N17 - 1 case of 6.

M.Charlton wrote: ↑13:03 Wed 04 Aug 2021 N17 - 1 case of 6.

Good buy. Got one as well when I got the chance. Great wine.

3 x Graham's Single Harvest 1974
2 x Graham's Single Harvest 1963
3 x Graham's Blend No.12

Big fan of Graham's - and especially the Single harvest collection

Wow............there some serious cash spent there!!! Looking forward to trying the Ruby Blend, keep checking online for availability.

The empty bottles should make good bases for bedside lights - or dinner table candle sticks..

Did you get the Ruby Blend No.12 online? Cant see it anywhere yet?

DanSelk wrote:Wow............there some serious cash spent there!!! Looking forward to trying the Ruby Blend, keep checking online for availability.

Yes - some cash has definitely been spent.. I also look forward to trying Blend Nº12 tonight..

No - my port pusher from Portugal, got his hands on some bottles of the Blend 12 for me.. I don't think anybody got it for sale online yet..

Big fan of Graham's - and especially the Single harvest collection

Impressive, You just seem to be missing this…

https://www.vintagewineandport.co.uk/pr ... -Port-1882

Do you have a favourite from your collection of Graham ports?

Doggett wrote:Impressive, You just seem to be missing this…

https://www.vintagewineandport.co.uk/pr ... -Port-1882

Do you have a favourite from your collection of Graham ports?

Yes - that is absolute number 1 on my wish list!!

I especially like the SH40, 52, 63 and the new 74

Big fan of Graham's - and especially the Single harvest collection

Got a case of Pintas 07. It's not their best VP, but it was quite cheap and the wine is quite agreeable.

A mixed lot - a dozen bottles, almost certainly from a house clearance. Items that caught my eye were a Niepoort 30 yr, bottled 1990, and a pair of Quarles Harris 1978 LBV - I'm not sure I've seen an LBV under the QH label before.

An unusual lot in that it looked like collected xmas presents given to an uncle so an so, who supposedly liked port but actually didn't, yet spanning a wide timeline of about 36 years, the latest datable bottle being a Sandeman 2014 LBV.

Three of the bottles were dry whites. On past form I gave these zero value when bidding, and opened one immediately upon collection - a Fonseca Sirocco - after getting them home, half expecting to dump it in the cooking.

No idea how old the bottle was, the label looked fairly recent, but the T-stopper snapped, despite my gentle attempt to ease it.

Wine brownish, which is not a good sign.. but surprisingy drinkable - very sherry like and quaffable..

Maybe the Magalhaes tawny will marinate the meat instead..

4 or 5 more bottles of 84 (picture showed 2 84's but listing didn't)
2 bottles of Novel 75

a road trip coming up to go and collect.

1 bottle of Quarles Harris 1983
1 bottle of Duorum Vinha De Castelo 2009
Warres Warrior dice games compendium (for Alex)
All bought at auction.

6 x 1977 Smith Woodhouse VP
4 x 1980 Smith Woodhouse VP
3 x 2011 Niepoort VP

I'm selling a couple of the SW to another forum member.

6 x 1977 Smith Woodhouse VP
4 x 1980 Smith Woodhouse VP
3 x 2011 Niepoort VP

Mike - you may be discovering an odd phenomenon that I encountered over a decade ago now..

..put two vintage port bottles together and they breed - whilst at the same time your bank account becomes strangely empty.

uncle tom wrote: ↑08:33 Thu 19 Aug 2021

6 x 1977 Smith Woodhouse VP
4 x 1980 Smith Woodhouse VP
3 x 2011 Niepoort VP

Mike - you may be discovering an odd phenomenon that I encountered over a decade ago now..

..put two vintage port bottles together and they breed - whilst at the same time your bank account becomes strangely empty.

I've seen the aftermath of that phenomena in my basement. I turn my back and BAM!, more Port appears out of nowhere.
They're like rabbits.

2x - 2011 Ferreira

My first VP bottles to lay down!

slateshalehead wrote: ↑03:06 Wed 01 Sep 2021 2x - 2011 Ferreira

My first VP bottles to lay down!

and so it begins...
Congrats! However much storage you have, plan to double it within five years!

PhilW wrote: ↑10:44 Wed 01 Sep 2021

slateshalehead wrote: ↑03:06 Wed 01 Sep 2021 2x - 2011 Ferreira

My first VP bottles to lay down!

and so it begins...
Congrats! However much storage you have, plan to double it within five years!

This is nonsense, don't listen to this rubbish.



It's more like three years.

1 x 4.5 L Graham's 20 years

1 x 4.5 L Graham's SH82

1 x Graham's Single Harvest 1976

1 x Graham's 40 years - Older version

1 x Graham's "The Tawny" - Older version

Big fan of Graham's - and especially the Single harvest collection