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A recent email from Derek made me think of an interesting question to ask - what is the port (or the two or three ports) that you have most of in your cellar.

My top three will not suprise those of you who know me as "Mr Vesuvio", they are:
1) Vesuvio 2004
2) Vesuvio 1999
3) Vesuvio 1994

Alex

My top three are:

1. Morgan 1991
2. Fonseca 1985
3. Q das Liceiras 1993

Derek

Not counting stuff that I import myself:

1. Fonseca 1985
2. Fonseca 2003
3. Taylor 1977 and Vargellas 1998, 1995, 1987

I think I am a bit of a spring chicken:

Niepoort 2000
Croft 2003
Vesuvio 2005

only have 2 bottles of each
but they're all "tied" with most amt of port in my collection

Fonseca 85, 92, 94, 97, 00, 03

Vesuvio 94 (I love the cases)
Grahams 94
Taylors 2000

Axl

Errmmm... there is a LOT more Claret in my cellar than Port. Port is not so much catching up as making a bigger nuisance. I think it goes:

1 Fonseca Guimaraens 1988
2 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1998
3 Dow Quinta do Bomfim 1996

KillerB wrote:Errmmm... there is a LOT more Claret in my cellar than Port. Port is not so much catching up as making a bigger nuisance. I think it goes:

1 Fonseca Guimaraens 1988
2 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1998
3 Dow Quinta do Bomfim 1996

Can I point out that I have looked in my cellar and Graham's Malvedos 1996 is above Vargellas 1998 and equal to Guimaraens 1988? Anybody looking at my rank will appreciate the irony.

Isn't that just a coincidence?

Derek T. wrote:Isn't that just a coincidence?

Nope. If it just happened that I was on Graham's Malvedos and it was the highest quantity in my cellar then that would be coincidence. When I am the person that created the rank and what's worse, made a fuss about it when I got there, to the extent that I took the admin rights away from one person for stopping me, I think this borders between medium-weight and heavy irony.

Sounds more like super-heavyweight coincidence to me

1970 Taylor/Fonseca tied
1985 Fonseca
1994 Dow/Vesuvio
2000 Niepoort/Vesuvio/Fonseca

My top two (after which I just have singles) are:

1985 Martinez
1985 Taylor

I'm interested to hear that you can get ports from other years...!

85 Ramos Pinto is the single port I have the most of (3 cases).

Moses,

I hope you got one hell of a buy on that '85!

What is your honest opinion of that Ramos Pinto VP? A TN and/or score would be appreciated. I only ask because knowing you don't like the 1966 Dow ... I will be able to calibrate better once I hear the answer to this.

mosesbotbol wrote:85 Ramos Pinto is the single port I have the most of (3 cases).

RP85 is great value drinking port. Alas I’m down to my last two bottles.

My collection is dominated by Fonseca 1985.

My top three for quantity reflects the occasions when I have managed to obtain wine at an unusually low price.

In order, they are:

1) Morgan '91
2) Vesuvio '96
3) Offley '83

With the addition of Cockburn '94 in fourth place, these are the only wines that I hold more than two dozens of, and collectively represent about 23% of my cellar.

Tom

1. Niepoort 2000
2. Niepoort 2003 ( 2nd bottle I will try at age 85)
3. Croft 1991/Ferreira 1997

RonnieRoots wrote:Not counting stuff that I import myself:

1. Fonseca 1985
2. Fonseca 2003
3. Taylor 1977 and Vargellas 1998, 1995, 1987

I noticed that I completely forgot to put Martinez 1994 in the list, it was supposed to tie the second place with Fonseca 2003. But with the additional purchase of 4 bottles today, it climbs to #1. New list:

1. Martinez 1994
2. Fonseca 1985
3. Fonseca 2003

taylor 1994
fonseca 1994
fonseca 1985
cockburn 1983

they will last for my life

Calem`s Qta. de Foz 1997
Taylors Vinha Velha 1995

1. Graham's 2000
2. Churchill 91 (AA)/TFG88 (those 1/2 bottles!)
3. Croft 2003

Most of the cellar is ones-and-twos, even the Graham's i've only a 1/2 case of. (overall, there are probably more than 50 bottles down there, and not a full case in the bunch).