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Thank Alan - I paid significantly less than that current pricing and was pleasantly surprised.

Here is the top label and main label. 2016-03-20 22.18.34.jpg 2016-03-20 22.19.13.jpg Many of the labels have disintegrated - this is one of the better ones. I didn't succeed in photographing the base of the bottle properly but the letters / numbers are BA 793 and then either 86 (if read from the ou...

I have some old white port that I bought as a bit of a gamble at auction, which turned out to be very good. The label says Dow's extra dry white port, produced and bottled by Silva Cosens ltd. Is there a way to find out how old it is, perhaps by decoding the paper tag around the stopper, which says ...

Brief comments: Krohn Lagrima well balanced, smooth and rich, apricots... Noval unfiltered LBV had much more oomph to it than the Taylors. Q Bomfim a bit disappointing, dull, almondy. Q Senhora Ribeira and Tesco 1994 both excellent, former WOTN, latter more evolved. More detailed comments here , low...

Thank you all for the helpful comments. I will make sure there's plenty of water. There will be about 16 so the alcohol pp will not be too excessive.
And thanks to JDAW for the amazing piece of postscript code, which I have enjoyed hacking with emacs.
I will try and remember to post TNs here.

I'm running a tasting for a wine group next Monday. The plan is Krohn Lagrima Taylor LBV 2007 Noval LBV 2001 (unfiltered) Q Bomfim 2001 Q Senhora Ribeira 1998 Tesco (Symingtons) 1994 Is that a sensible running order? Or should I put the Tesco 94 before the two single quintas? There is also the logis...