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[Alex Bridgeman]

12 more* bottles of Bomfim 1992

So far this year I have bought 12 bottles of Bomfim 1992

Does not compute

*Emphasis added by DRT.

Yes it does - not all of what I buy is for me. Simple

[Alex Bridgeman]

... 2 bottles of 1963 port for myself ...

Umm. Make that 3 bottles now.

[Christopher]

12 Bomfim 92
24 Fonseca 85
12 Warre 83
12 Graham 00
1 Cockburn 1908
1 Graham 27
1 Taylor 70
2 Taylor 45
2 Taylor 48
Got a bit carried away!

[PhilW]

12 Bomfim 92
24 Fonseca 85
12 Warre 83
12 Graham 00
1 Cockburn 1908
1 Graham 27
1 Taylor 70
2 Taylor 45
2 Taylor 48
Got a bit carried away!

That's a very nice, broad selection.

[Axel P]

I bought some 45s before they are getting even more expensive:

Cockburn, Rozes, Sandeman, Feuerheerd, Croft

Axel

[gerwin.degraaf]

Kopke 1970 VP (4)
Osborne 1994 VP (3)
Q da Romaneira 1994 VP (10)

[PopulusTremula]

12 each of Warre '94 and '00. My first from this producer.

[Zelandakh]

Dow Master Blend Finest Reserve x 10

Mainly because they only had 10...

[Zelandakh]

OK, so the Finest Reserve isn't subtle. I'm not going to go for official tasting notes but it tastes like port, it looks like port and has a mouth feel that isn't bad at all.

My tally shows 24 of those so that's the next month sorted anyway.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Shed loads of vintage champagne from Tesco in their latest bout of vinous generosity. Two bottles have been consumed already! And 6 bottles of Vargellas 1998 for what worked out to be £11.25 per bottle - sadly this seems to have been a local manager shelf clearance exercise restricted just to one store.

[DRT]

Shed loads of vintage champagne from Tesco in their latest bout of vinous generosity. Two bottles have been consumed already! And 6 bottles of Vargellas 1998 for what worked out to be £11.25 per bottle - sadly this seems to have been a local manager shelf clearance exercise restricted just to one store.

I have witnessed the same shelf clearance phenomenon before. It seems that modern retail management training ensures that store managers never fall into the trap of allowing their current batch of Vargellas 1998 go out of date before they put the next batch of fresh Vargellas 1998 go on the shelf

[JacobH]

Thanks to Tesco my ‟causal drinking” mixed bin (aka ‟the pile of LBV”)is now looking rather full and I’m rather worried it’s now going to fall over before I have a chance to make serious inroads into it...

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[Alex Bridgeman]

Thanks to Tesco my ‟causal drinking” mixed bin (aka ‟the pile of LBV”)is now looking rather full and I’m rather worried it’s now going to fall over before I have a chance to make serious inroads into it...

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I love the picture! I can make out Croft 2004 LBV - what else is in there?

[mpij]

1 bottle Quinta Do Vesuvio 1994 purchased and consumed in the Beckford Inn near Tewkesbury where I was staying over weekend. Thought £45 was quite reasonable for hotel price.

[uncle tom]

Thought £45 was quite reasonable for hotel price.

Very reasonable - recent auction prices have been around that level.

[mpij]

Miele KWL4712Sed wine cellar for £395 including delivery from Ebay, now need to either clear a space in the spare room or get rid of pile of junk in lobby before it's delivered. Can now at least think ab out replacing broken tumbledrier(would have considered under counter unit if one had come up at right price) but on further thought might prioritise filling the cellar!

[JacobH]

I love the picture! I can make out Croft 2004 LBV - what else is in there?

Thanks; I think it’s currently: Quevedo ’03; Croft ’04 & ’05; Taylor ’05; Graham ’06 and some Quevedo 10-year-old tawny (in the optimistic believe that we may have some hot weather at some stage this year...)

I slowly work my way down the pile whenever I want to open some Port to quaff in the evening. None of it is VP, of course, but it was all insanely underpriced. I think I paid about £8 a bottle on average...

[PopulusTremula]

Based on TPF tasting notes and expected longevity; 3 mags Smith Woodhouse 1977.

[mpij]

2 bottles Dow's 1999 Quinta do Bomfim reduced to £20 in Asda, also picked up another couple of the crusted as it is also still reduced.

[Wookie]

Evening All ... picked some stock recently:
Fonseca 2000
Smith Woodhouse 2005 LBV
Fonseca 1997
Fonseca Guimaraens 1991
Dow & Warres 2005 LBV's
Crasto & Calem 2005

Thin pickins down here, so I take what I can get (for a reasonable price, of course!)

Added the CellarTracker iPad app too - fun, if not cumbersome!

[Alex Bridgeman]

Picked up 6 of the Bomfim 1999 from Asda yesterday. I'll tuck these away into storage for a while. Might get another one just to see what they're like at the moment.

[gerwin.degraaf]

9x Osborne 1992 VP (no idea how these will turn out, I've got one on deathrow for next week when I'm organising a little wine tasting) at auction a couple of weeks ago (got them delivered last week). They all do look to be in very good condition, which at least gives some hope that they have been cellared well over the years.
I've never seen a TN on this particular VP.Gerwin de Graaf

[Alex Bridgeman]

6 bottles of Vargellas 1998, shared with two others.

[roel]

9x Osborne 1992 VP (no idea how these will turn out, I've got one on deathrow for next week when I'm organising a little wine tasting)

A vintage port tasting on Dutch soil? Did you know it's always good karma to invite your fellow port-forum members? .

Roel.

[mpij]

6 bottles Quinta da Romaneira 2004 unfiltered lbv
6 bottles Quinta do Crasto 2006 unfiltered lbv