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Are there kits or tools available to re-seal bottles without using a cork? Some sort of appropriate shrink-wrap plastic followed by a healthy waxing would probably do it, provided the plastic in question was a type that wouldn't itself affect the Port. Re-corking with a cork, even one thought to be...

I'd be interested know how you proved that cork taint can come and go in a wine, and how you came to that conclusion? It started with a casual observation that I'd never had a corked '55. This turned into a trawl of tasting notes which revealed that reports of corked port bottles stopped appearing ...

Cockburn: 1983 is fabulous... provided it isn't corked. Which, sadly, is far too rare. As it approaches its 40th year, any cork taint should soon vanish as the cork itself becomes saturated. I have proven that TCA is not stable in the body of a wine (at least, a fortified wine) - only in the cork. ...

I wonder if that Sandeman ’67 bottle is atypically light? I grabbed it because it happened to be handy - it may have been a little lighter than most bottles of that era. I’ve noticed very few have a deep punt any more which must save a lot of weight. As a rule, Portuguese bottles have a punt with a...

I've somewhat sidetracked my own thread here - if anyone wants to discuss glass weights further, a thread split may be needed.

The weight of this bottle intrigued me. I recall, a decade ago, a producer fearing that the green agenda would force them to use ultra lightweight bottles going forward. Seems that memo got 'filed'.. Here are some dry bottle weights, weighed just now: El cheapo Pinot Grigio bottle from my pub - 340g...

CPR 1 wrote: ↑21:06 Sat 01 Oct 2022

uncle tom wrote: ↑17:56 Sat 01 Oct 2022 Does anyone have the Niepoort '83 VP?

Yes - Happy to bring this, it has been excellent on past occasions

Good - will put you down for that one.

Does anyone have the Niepoort '83 VP?

Got a bit thirsty whilst walking the east coast of Anglesey this past week. I packed an SFE 2009 LBV - bit closed, no big star - for late night refreshment, but needed another bottle. So off to the local Spar convenience store. Therein I found a Cockburn 2015 LBV at £14.99. Yet another Cockburn bott...

I would surmise that these are being primarily crated up for the nouveau riche in China, who usually have a sweet tooth but also tend to be tannin averse. And if they can command a great price, then the very best of luck to them. However as a UK investment prospect, I would advise no - the secondary...

mosesbotbol wrote: ↑18:17 Wed 28 Sep 2022 Off hand I have Ramos Pinto and Ferreira '83

Eighteen bottles makes a good quorum for a horizontal.

Re. pitches for a date, I'm minded to avoid bank holiday weeks and school holidays as some people have other demands on their time.

- Any days of week preferred?

A while since I last hosted a London event, so I thought I'd take charge of this one. Date: Thursday, May 25th Theme: The 1983 vintage at 40, a horizontal Location: Boot & Flogger - booking now confirmed I have 16 different '83s available (with other people's wines also noted): Berry Brothers Ow...

Interesting report on the vintage - likening it to '48 is a bit of a tease - I wonder if there will be a limited number of very good VPs made? Which, curiously, also happened in 1922..

Wow consistent are the weight of empty bottles of the same type? Empty bottles seem to be more constant in weight back in the sixties than they are today. Reason? - because (I think) with new bottle making technology they could; before realising that this new found ability didn't make them any mone...

I popped one a little over year ago - moderate VA, but nothing like enough to render the bottle undrinkable. I noted that without that, it would be a monster of a wine, but not the brooding type that says 'come back in half a century' - it was readily approachable.

Bottled 1935, decanted 1970 - Decanted again yesterday on the occasion of my uncle's 90th birthday. This, I think, the first time I've ever popped a garrafeira, and the only one I've ever come across one at auction that was not made by Niepoort. A moderately light, aromatic, balanced and most elegan...

Another case inspected, this time a Gould Campbell '85, the remaining eleven bottles after the case was originally opened for the Nov '15 '85 horizontal, with the bottles first weighed soon after. Levels good, all in neck, and ordered according to visual level. Two of the bottles had stained selos, ...

They might well sell the places on this, but it seems badly over-priced, and the selection of ports on offer looks scattergun and lacking a theme.

- Not for me.

That’s an interesting question. Might have problems with strength, though? Particularly with uneven loading or the like? I wonder about PVC piping as an alternative? The only way to work out strength would be to trial a range of wall thicknesses. A rigid frame or tie straps to stop the tubes from f...

I am just wondering why you don’t weigh them as soon as you have them physically to give you a base measurement. Starting at 18 years seems like it may miss being able to spot a trend of loss at an earlier point. Or is that being completely silly? From a practical stance, although I am now up to 37...

I've always been a bit of a 'systems guy' - working out solutions and then refining them. My working assumption with weighing young bottles was that an interval of at least six years, and preferably a little more, would usually flag up those bottles with corks that were likely to be early candidates...

By pure coincidence, the date coincides with what would have been my late father's 100th birthday. With that in mind, I shall be providing a 1922. My father's preferred tipples were beer, and in restaurants 'a good fruity Hock' My knowledge of German wines is very limited - if anyone has a suitable ...

I have only ever had a single bottle sealed with a t-stopper that was a leaker. In your neck of the woods, I suspect there's very little secondary market trade in T-stoppered bottles. In the UK, small stashes of assorted, and sometimes interesting older bottles turn up quite often in house clearanc...

So.. what is the general perception of the difference between a T-stopper and a driven cork? That one is for the short term and the other for keeps? Well, I don't have a huge number of T-stoppered bottles that have been weighed more than once so their ullage rate can be calculated; but a couple of r...

What is a L.R.S.? A super-sized screwdriver, typically 18" long with a blade half an inch wide. There are a few currently on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-LNER-RAILWAY-Long-SCREWDRIVER-TOOL-/394192992684?hash=item5bc7bbb9ac%3Ag%3AltUAAOSw-api79kJ&nma=true&si=phB2b1xmUEmv3%252...