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It would not go down well at home if I chose to spend Valentine's night with my beloved Port chums rather than my even more beloved other half. I wouldn't be able to make the 14th.

Some of my Port still has the Victoria Wine price stickers on, and we're talking decent Port like Dow 1970.

Jasper May wrote: ↑

22:36 Wed 16 Jan 2019

Of those not in bold (and therefore I assume currently missing) I can offer: Quinta da Senhora do Convento, Vista Alegre and Alves de Sousa.

Let's hope we all make it to 2051 !

Thank you, the list has been updated.

M.Charlton wrote: ↑

02:51 Fri 18 Jan 2019

When looking into visiting Q’ta do Vesuvio, I came across:

http://milesaway.pt/projects/quintas/?lang=en

Perhaps others on this forum have heard of this particular guide?

A very interesting guide, not one I'd heard of before.

Where would the bottle be needed?

I'm always happy to drink 1970 Ports. I'm in.

You could loosen it slightly and make it "Port from the '70s"

Yes please.

Perhaps a theme which can be interpreted by the bringer of a bottle. "Port linked in some way with Victoria".

Just because I could, I took the list of Ports known to have been declared from the 2011 vintage and checked to see which we have available to us. This is what I found: ‘Douro Boys’ (40 cases in magnums only); Wiese & Krohn: Krohn ; Krohn Retiro Novo ; Niepoort: Niepoort (1,650 cases); Niepoort Biom...

Could we add the fact that it is a Sunday to the title? Have we booked a room at the B&F? Hopefully we will be able to get the Red Room — but I'm not sure what are the opening hours of the B&F on Sunday. And yes, I am still in. I had Sunday lunch at the B&F just before Christmas (which was splendid...

That's not a bad plan, but you are trying to fit a lot into a small amount of time. One of the things about the Douro is that it is a wonderful place to just sit and chill and let the world go buy. With friends a couple of years ago we booked into Bomfim and included a picnic lunch on the terrace of...

If anyone has the opportunity to visit the Oxford & Cambridge club, their current Vintage Port list comprises of Dow 1997 @ £60, Graham 1997 @ £62, Taylor 1997 @ £63 and Taylor 1994 @ £65.

Charles's note has made me realise that I can also talk about the bottles which came out of my cellar this year, without having to wait to finish typing up my tasting notes. The shippers which came out of my cellar most often in 2018 were Warre (11 bottles including Cavadinha) followed by Dow (9 bot...

Josh You have a nice selection of Ports for sale. I would expect that you’ll receive a few offers from the people who read the forum. One request though. Vintage Port is best stored lying down. It is essential that it is kept out of the light, ideally somewhere the temperature is steady, cooler is b...

Would you believe it, this is my 10th annual posting of pointless statistics? I also had a look back to that first post and have noted how things have changed over the decade in italics. At the end of 2018, I had a cellar which was composed of: 90.4% Port (90.8% last year ; 82% in December 2008 ) 3....

Sorry, I’m not in an office today - but could well be an early(ish) arriver.

Hello AJP.

If you're not busy tomorrow night and are in London, please do consider dropping by the Boot & Flogger after 6.30 and saying hello! It would be a pleasure to meet you — and perhaps even share a little of our Port with you! And JDAW will be there to sign your book for you...

Alex

It seems prices for the 1977s have gone up since 1983.

My local Tesco has just stocked its shelves with the new Tesco Finest Vintage Port, this one is also from the Symingtons but is now the 2007 vintage. Still £20 a bottle (at full price). Next to it is the Malvedos 2004, currently reduced from £27.50 to also be £20 per bottle.

If anyone has a copy of Decanter from December from a year before 2017, please do post the prices from those earlier editions.

Clearing out a cupboard this morning I found a copy of Decanter Magazine from December 2017. By coincidence I also had a copy from December 2018 so I thought I would do a comparison of the Port prices given in their Fine Wine Price Watch over the course of 12 months. To my surprise, I found prices a...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

09:58 Mon 24 Dec 2018

SCP wrote: ↑

01:21 Tue 11 Dec 2018

Spotted at Heathrow T5 today. Priced at £39.99.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑

06:58 Mon 24 Dec 2018

Bought at Frankfurt airport in October 2018 for, IIRC, 35 Euros.

I blame Brexit.

Remind me, are we allowed to report posts by people who have American English as their first language or is this thread just for the admonishment re-educationof the native English speaker?

But a very entertaining novella it was too. Not sure I enjoyed the (very well chosen) reference to Lucretius. A hint of smug schadenfruede echoed in his poem.

Hope you're well Daniel!

Can't do better than a 1970 Vintage Port at the moment, they are drinking beautifully.

I have been pleased with my Climadiff, which has run smoothly since purchase. The only slight irritation I have with it is that the door can only be hinged on the rights, which makes access more difficult than it needs to be.

Of course, that could have changed in the years since I bought mine.