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Just to update it is the 2005 and is the generic variant. Ready to drink. A little floral on the nose and milk chocolate on the fruit filled palate. Acidity not discernable. By contrast the Quinta do Noval LBV 2005 is made of much sterner stuff. Closed and tannic and built to cellar for a while.griff wrote:Noval LBV down to £9/bottle at Tesco.
Worth noting that this might not be universal - Tesco Henley seem to be treating the regular Noval LBV and the single vineyard LBV as interchangeable, since the different bottlings seem to appear under the same shelf label from week to week!griff wrote:Just to update it is the 2005 and is the generic variant. Ready to drink. A little floral on the nose and milk chocolate on the fruit filled palate. Acidity not discernable. By contrast the Quinta do Noval LBV 2005 is made of much sterner stuff. Closed and tannic and built to cellar for a while.griff wrote:Noval LBV down to £9/bottle at Tesco.
A port lucky dip? I may have to pay them another visit...RAYC wrote:Worth noting that this might not be universal - Tesco Henley seem to be treating the regular Noval LBV and the single vineyard LBV as interchangeable, since the different bottlings seem to appear under the same shelf label from week to week!griff wrote:Just to update it is the 2005 and is the generic variant. Ready to drink. A little floral on the nose and milk chocolate on the fruit filled palate. Acidity not discernable. By contrast the Quinta do Noval LBV 2005 is made of much sterner stuff. Closed and tannic and built to cellar for a while.griff wrote:Noval LBV down to £9/bottle at Tesco.
I bought 6 of these today, but suspect that a better deal will be coming soon if Sainsbury repeat what they did with this VP in the run-up to Christmas 2011. If my memory is correct I think these were around £13 each throughout December!AHB wrote:Sainsbury's are running their "Buy 6 and get 25% off" offer again.
Their excellent Sainsbury's Taste the Difference 2003 Vintage Port is £25 per bottle before the 25% discount, must be good value at £18.75 per bottle.
Expert comment on this, by email or in the Other Wines section, would be most welcome. Thank you.AHB wrote:But I'll admit that I walked out with little port and lots of Champagne, including 6 of the Sainsbury's Own Label Blanc de Blanc NV for the ridiculous price of £11.25 a bottle and 6 Lanson Black Label for £15 per bottle. Someone will be happy at home tonight!
What would you like to know?jdaw1 wrote:Expert comment on this, by email or in the Other Wines section, would be most welcome. Thank you.AHB wrote:But I'll admit that I walked out with little port and lots of Champagne, including 6 of the Sainsbury's Own Label Blanc de Blanc NV for the ridiculous price of £11.25 a bottle and 6 Lanson Black Label for £15 per bottle. Someone will be happy at home tonight!
Perhaps JDAW wants to know if buying your wife 12 bottles of Champagne on your birthday has a positive effect on your general wellbeing?AHB wrote:What would you like to know?jdaw1 wrote:Expert comment on this, by email or in the Other Wines section, would be most welcome. Thank you.AHB wrote:But I'll admit that I walked out with little port and lots of Champagne, including 6 of the Sainsbury's Own Label Blanc de Blanc NV for the ridiculous price of £11.25 a bottle and 6 Lanson Black Label for £15 per bottle. Someone will be happy at home tonight!
TN? General quality report? Worth buying some dozen?AHB wrote:What would you like to know?
Although I do remember one of our younger members drinking pints of it in a hotel in Covent Garden and becoming quite rowdy.jdaw1 wrote:I haven’t heard many reports of hooliganism fueled by Vintage Port.
Press reports of Bullingdon Club dinners may be a good place to start looking.jdaw1 wrote:I haven’t heard many reports of hooliganism fueled by Vintage Port.
I am expecting the heavy discounting of Champagne by UK supermarkets to lead to a drop in quality of NV Champagne, similar to the poor quality levels seen in the late '80s and early '90s, but so far I have not seen this happen.jdaw1 wrote:TN? General quality report? Worth buying some dozen?AHB wrote:What would you like to know?
I can confirm that, and the Sainsbury's Own Label NV is Duval Leroy.griff wrote:I think the Sainsbury's BdB and BdN are both made by Duval Leroy. A decent purchase indeed for mid-week fizz.
Is that the Dow's Master Blend LBV or the Dow's Master Blend Ruby Reserve (I think both exist)AHB wrote:Tesco have put on promotion Noval 2006 Unfiltered LBV, now £10.99, and Dow's Master Blend, now £6.65.
And if you buy 6 or more bottles you get an additional 5% discount.
It is the Master Blend Ruby Reserve - you are right, there are two wines made under the Master Blend label.RAYC wrote:Is that the Dow's Master Blend LBV or the Dow's Master Blend Ruby Reserve (I think both exist)AHB wrote:Tesco have put on promotion Noval 2006 Unfiltered LBV, now £10.99, and Dow's Master Blend, now £6.65.
And if you buy 6 or more bottles you get an additional 5% discount.
Yes. Although it was 1998 here.PhilW wrote:Sainsbury's this morning have their 25% off on 6 bottles or more for wine/champagne/fortified. They also have the Graham Malvedos 99 on offer at 22.37 (instead of usual 26.37), which after 25% works out at 16.78 per bottle; note 6 per customer limit (per visit, I assume).
I just bought 6 x Sainsbury TTD 2003 VP for £90 (£5 off per bottle then 25% discount for 6) plus 6 of the Malvedos 1999 for £100.66.PhilW wrote:Sainsbury's this morning have their 25% off on 6 bottles or more for wine/champagne/fortified. They also have the Graham Malvedos 99 on offer at 22.37 (instead of usual 26.37), which after 25% works out at 16.78 per bottle; note 6 per customer limit (per visit, I assume).
So you now own a large stock?DRT wrote: In the second store I read the shelf ticket which says "Maximum of six cases per customer".
This is correct - but by cases they mean "cases of 6" (i.e. max of 36 bottles per customer).DRT wrote:I just bought 6 x Sainsbury TTD 2003 VP for £90 (£5 off per bottle then 25% discount for 6) plus 6 of the Malvedos 1999 for £100.66.PhilW wrote:Sainsbury's this morning have their 25% off on 6 bottles or more for wine/champagne/fortified. They also have the Graham Malvedos 99 on offer at 22.37 (instead of usual 26.37), which after 25% works out at 16.78 per bottle; note 6 per customer limit (per visit, I assume).
I noted Phil's advice and visited two stores to buy six bottles in each store. In the second store I read the shelf ticket which says "Maximum of six cases per customer".
I know. But Phil's note suggests six bottles, not six cases, which is why I visited two stores to buy twelve bottles.RAYC wrote:This is correct - but by cases they mean "cases of 6" (i.e. max of 36 bottles per customer).DRT wrote:I just bought 6 x Sainsbury TTD 2003 VP for £90 (£5 off per bottle then 25% discount for 6) plus 6 of the Malvedos 1999 for £100.66.PhilW wrote:Sainsbury's this morning have their 25% off on 6 bottles or more for wine/champagne/fortified. They also have the Graham Malvedos 99 on offer at 22.37 (instead of usual 26.37), which after 25% works out at 16.78 per bottle; note 6 per customer limit (per visit, I assume).
I noted Phil's advice and visited two stores to buy six bottles in each store. In the second store I read the shelf ticket which says "Maximum of six cases per customer".
The general wine/champagne/fortified at 25% offer has a restriction of 6 cases per customer (on general signage).DRT wrote:I know. But Phil's note suggests six bottles, not six cases, which is why I visited two stores to buy twelve bottles.RAYC wrote:This is correct - but by cases they mean "cases of 6" (i.e. max of 36 bottles per customer).DRT wrote:I just bought 6 x Sainsbury TTD 2003 VP for £90 (£5 off per bottle then 25% discount for 6) plus 6 of the Malvedos 1999 for £100.66.PhilW wrote:Sainsbury's this morning have their 25% off on 6 bottles or more for wine/champagne/fortified. They also have the Graham Malvedos 99 on offer at 22.37 (instead of usual 26.37), which after 25% works out at 16.78 per bottle; note 6 per customer limit (per visit, I assume).
I noted Phil's advice and visited two stores to buy six bottles in each store. In the second store I read the shelf ticket which says "Maximum of six cases per customer".
I was intending to do the same, but hesitated.jdaw1 wrote:I ordered STTD 2003 × 36, online, to be delivered. And this evening there was delivered STTD 2003 × 13, plus a ruby × 3 as a ‘substitute’. I accepted delivery of only the thirteen.
YES. Great NV. Shame it isn't available in my area. Other bubbly worth looking at is the 2002 Bolly and the 2002 Moet.RAYC wrote:Thank you.
Really a rather unsatisfactory order system, which didn't credit £5 off per bottle in basket (applied on checkout) or the 25% discount at checkout (i'm trusting that this will be adjusted later).
Anyone know whether 2004 M&C Grand Vintage is also worth a look at under £30? (KillerB...i can see you browsing!)
Local Sainsbury has now run out of '99 and is selling 2001 at the same price.griff wrote:Yes. Although it was 1998 here.PhilW wrote:Sainsbury's this morning have their 25% off on 6 bottles or more for wine/champagne/fortified. They also have the Graham Malvedos 99 on offer at 22.37 (instead of usual 26.37), which after 25% works out at 16.78 per bottle; note 6 per customer limit (per visit, I assume).
BBR wrote:Vintage Port’s almost unique ability to age steadily for 30 years and very often longer meant the serious buyer had to look ahead to cater for his offspring’s drinking, much as, hopefully, his forebears had thought to do decades earlier for the current generation.
Before bottling had to be completed in Portugal, the Port wine was shipped from Porto / Vila Nova de Gaia to the UK in a wooden cask called a ‘Pipe’ and customers would order by the Pipe, or perhaps share one, and instruct their Wine Merchant to bottle a complete cask which would then be delivered and binned in their cool, dark cellars ”“ filling capacious bins with rows of neatly laid out bottles which were then left to slumber quietly until mature. Today, as all Port is bottled in Portugal, we can’t offer you to buy ‘by the Pipe’ itself. A Pipe’s capacity varies somewhat as, of course, some wine was ‘lost’ perhaps due to spillage or surreptitious consumption (what’s called ‘shrinkage’ today) but it is agreed that a Pipe is the equivalent of 56 dozen bottles ”“ a volume of wine probably a little too much for today’s circumstances but we are able to offer a Berrys’ Half-Pipe made up of the following:
Berrys’ Half-Pipe - £11,500 in bond (saving you £740).
4 dozen bottles 2011 Taylor
4 dozen bottles 2011 Fonseca
4 dozen bottles 2011 Graham
4 dozen bottles 2011 Warre
4 dozen bottles 2011 Dow
4 dozen bottles 2011 Cockburn
4 dozen bottles 2011 Croft
Given that BBR's prices are around £360 higher for this batch of cases than you would pay some other retailers this "saving" represents about 3% discount, which doesn't feel particularly enticing for such a large volume of bottles.RAYC wrote:BBR wrote:Berrys’ Half-Pipe - £11,500 in bond (saving you £740).
I will remember that when next considering what to buy you for your birthday.jdaw1 wrote:Even so, I would welcome being bought a half pipe of 2011s.
Would you like it in a single bottle?jdaw1 wrote:Even so, I would welcome being bought a half pipe of 2011s.
Best not, what would he drink with his dinner?AHB wrote:Would you like it in a single bottle?jdaw1 wrote:Even so, I would welcome being bought a half pipe of 2011s.
Well worth buying at that price...unless you already have several dozen!SCP wrote:Spotted in a Sainsbury's, although not available online. STTD 2003, £14.99 reduced from £25.