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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.

This can only be a Palo Cortado. By Lustau?

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

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

Lustau old East India Solera. Go Andre!

Incorrect!

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

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

Not PX.

Sweet?

The wine society medium sweet oloroso?

Amontillado?

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.

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

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.

[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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Is it a 19th century port?

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.

Taylor 1920?

DRT wrote:Taylor 1920?

Best guess so far, but no.

Taylor 1917.

LGTrotter wrote:Taylor 1917.

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

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

Croft 35.

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.

Quinta do Noval Crusted 1961?

DRT wrote:Quinta do Noval Crusted 1961?

That tawny? In 1976? Really?

And your brand is a much worse guess.

Fonseca, the mystical 1921.

djewesbury wrote:Fonseca, the mystical 1921.

Wrong house, wrong year.

Browny rather than tawny? Maybe a Colheita.

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

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.

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'.

Sandeman

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'.

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.

Taylor 1921
I mean 1922

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?

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.

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.

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?

We're all confused. Guess away.

Quinta do Retiro Novo 1926

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.