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@ AHB - Thank you, that should allow enough standing time!
@ Christopher - Second reserve, pencil it in your diary...

I confirm that I was suggesting AHB's preferred "a Port which cost you less than £25" and was very carefully not suggesting "a Port which cost less than £25 to buy in 2019". Albeit I obscured my intention by immediately mentioning that I have four candidates that fit either interpretation. Like AHB ...

95% opaque, red rim. White pepper and aniseed on the nose. Palate as though a summer fruit compote has been poached in an oak bowl- there's fruit, but there are also very obvious mouth-drying tannins. Long, warm, finish with a late burst of blackberry to give it interest.

My port-drinking for the week of the 9th will be on Monday 9th, for the 1991 horizontal. But I would be up for something in the week of the 16th. 'A port that cost you less than £25' could be a theme. Just on what I have purchased in the past month I would have four options for that immediately to h...

Warre Quinta da Cavadinha 2004 now 'on offer' at £24.99 in Waitrose. Seems a lot after the £10 bottles of the 2001 we all hoovered up in M&S but in truth it's not a bad price for a SQVP that's starting to drink. Plus, Offley pink for £9.99 for those that like such things...

Another 10 x 2011 (or, to use JDAW's deliciously archaic notation, 1200/- worth; I say archaic because the book suggests 8 year old vintage port could be had this cheap as late as 1983) acquired this lunchtime from Marble Arch; this included four from a stand next to the cheese aisle, which I hadn't...

Magnums not on the shelves in Finsbury Square or Pantheon stores. My trawls were not in the least a waste of time, however, since the latter did (note past tense) have six bottles of 2007 vintage and three bottles of 2011 vintage, all of which still scanned at £6...

Great port consumed with great people. May I add my thanks for making my guest so welcome - she had a jolly good time and reports "feeling surprisingly okay today"

A half bottle popped, decanted, and poured impromptu after lunch. A dark pink, 40% opaque. Quite a subdued nose, but rich and sweet in the mouth with a good note of fig mid-palate. In half, fully mature and very pleasant, but not port of the top rank. Tasted 06/10/19.

Oporto bottled. A pale red, 25% opaque. The most splendid palate of rose hip syrup, luscious and long. This is a port that I have found 'travels' very badly after decanting; this, my last of a half-case bought at auction a decade ago, was super. Decanted 3 hours and consumed, within 1 hour thereafte...

An example with high fill, English - bottled by Peatling and Cawdron. Still a rich ruby red, 60% opaque. A hint of ripe black fruit on the nose promised much but, alas, the wine was utterly spoiled by VA- possibly the worst-affected bottle of port I have ever opened; spit-it-out-into-the-fireplace b...

Lot 775 in the sale at Bellmans on 15-17 October is an Oporto-bottled Taylor's 1963, which the label says was bottled in 1966 in Oporto. This bottling is new to me. https://www.bellmans.co.uk/sales/sussex ... w-lot/775/

My guest's initials are OJW. She would like burrata on toast; and a medium rare sirloin with salad.

Due to updates, please can my standard food choices be updated to

Starter: burrata on toast
Main: sirloin, medium, gratin potatoes, plus a side salad.
Pudding: no pudding

What gorgeous-coloured wines... I am desperately sorry to have had to miss it.

Yes please; with guest; each of us equipped with a bottle of Port.

The greater part of the same bottle re-tasted after being open for a couple of days (refrigerated for most of that time in a half litre bottle): if anything slightly darker; more pronounced mint on the nose; a new and attractive note of poached figs on the mid palate; some black cherry now showing u...

Bottled 2003. 80% opaque, dark red wine. Mint and spice and, after a while, summer pudding with cream on the nose. Red currant on the mid palate, spice and some warm Panda liquorice on the medium-length finish. It's too soft to make old bones, but it is admirable wine for drinking over the next five...

I am sorry; I was guilty of jumping to a conclusion. I look forward to Axel's comments with much interest.

@ PhilW - Thank you, I hadn't thought to look through the VPID before posting. I have now looked at the photos, and consulted The Book; I am not substantially more quiet in my mind about the 1878 as a result. The photo of the 1917 in the Addendum to The Book bears the same error, I presume that's th...

The restocking is both increasingly limited and increasingly idiosyncratic; the rewards are getting thinner but, I hope, so am I; today's reward, for about twelve miles of walking between central London M&S branches, was two bottles of the 2011 vintage @ £6 each (and 5 halves of excellent Lustau-mad...

A half bottle decanted 12 hours before tasting. Glossy dark wine with a splendid rich mid-palate, more black forest gateau than the usual dark fruits. Finish perhaps a touch shorter than perfection would demand, but this is nevertheless very good wine. From 375 this wine is fully ready to drink, but...

For those that have not already filled their racks, there has been some limited restocking of the M&S 2007. I was trudging home along Oxford Street this evening, exhausted after a dispiriting meeting in the West End, and thought I would pop into the Pantheon store again just in case. I was not so ex...

My apologies for interpolating an ampersand in an incorrect place. I should not draft posts from a mobile device with a small screen. My point is that there is no 'apostrophe s' to be found in "Cockburn Smithes" I have never before seen a bottle that made this error. So, I am suspicious of a bottle ...

Without reference to the book, review of photos in which will probably resolve this point, I think the label is slightly unlikely. The company was never called Cockburn's & Smithes Ca Lda. The company was however for a time called Cockburn Smithes Ca Lda. Even assuming an English bottling I find it ...