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Benchmark Wine wrote:Fonseca Port 1994 ~ 1 @ $190 WS100, Decanter*****
Quinta do Noval Nacional Port 1970 ~ 1 @ $795 WS98, RP96
Quinta do Noval Nacional Port 1985 ~ 1 @ $375 WS95
Quinta do Noval Port 1994 ~ 1 @ $85 WS95, RP95 bin soiled label
Taylor Port 2003 ~ 12 @ $79 RP98

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AHB wrote:Although an exception to this rule is made if one has drunk one's birthyear Nacional at the Quinta.

Alas the only birth-year Noval I have had at the Quinta was a Colheita. Very fine, but lacking the rareness and hence smugness of the Nacional.

Traditional (ie. unfiltered) LBV. Decanted cleanly out of the bottle leaving nothing in the bottle but lots of sludge in the filter paper - so much so that it took nearly two hours to drip through. 1. Lift filter paper, holding it in at least three and ideally four points. 2. Insert new filter pape...

In the 1991 Morgan department I am still a virgin.

I have none, which it seems is far too few.

Feel free to post a picture of the exciting neck tag.

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One celebrates one’s fortieth birthday with dinner at Quinta do Noval, or one politely allows the day to pass without mention.

{Smugtastic emoticon}

I have five bottles that qualify: please adopt.

Works for me.

Acker, Merrall & Condit wrote:2 bottles 1963 Graham's Vintage Port $249 per bottle, 96pts, WA
12 bottles 1977 Graham's Vintage Port $129 per bottle, 93pts, WA
12 bottles 1983 Graham's Vintage Port $89 per bottle, 92pts, WA

Fonseca Port 1983 ~ 2 @ $80 WS90, MB**** Fonseca Port 2000 ~ 12 @ $70 RP95+, ST95 Graham`s Port 1991 ~ 2 @ $60 RP94, WS93 Graham`s Port 1994 ~ 6 @ $80 RP96, WS95 Quinta do Noval Port 1970 ~ 1 @ $95 Quinta do Noval Silval Port 1997 ~ 1 @ $39 RP93, WS92 Quinta do Noval Silval Port 2000 ~ 9 @ $30 WS94...

Fonseca Port 2000 ~ 12 @ $70 RP95+, ST95 "Saturated medium-deep ruby. Exotic aromas of black fruit liqueur, road tar, smoked meat and hot stones; this reminded me of a great ripe-year Hermitage. Hugely rich and dense, with compelling sweetness and pliancy but also sound framing acidity. Extrem...

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Metal neck tag eh?

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=12135#p12135]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:The Niepoort 1977’s little metal badge:

And it was dry and comfortably warm in Porto when I left this morning.

I can only hope that a six-litre resignation will be followed by a six-litre appointment.

Ouch: that was surely a distressing sight.

Maybe I will be able to hunt down the glass man and have decanters made for you. Not forgotten!

To find ’70 and ’73 always maintaining and improving their place to the very last bottle, when tears would have mingled with the wine but for spoiling it ; to see the ’90’s catching up and beating the (as it seemed to me) always over-rated ’87’s : or to pit against each other two such vintages as ’...

This thread contains the text of the chapter on Port in George Saintsbury’s book Notes on a Cellar-Book , as typed by jdaw1. There will doubtless be errors in the typing, and readers may well have other comments. Please post corrections and comments in the thread Notes on a Cellar-Book: Corrections...

For Port red Port, as one of the earliest celebrants after the Methuen treaty no less justly than emphatically calls it, White Port being a mere albino is incomparable when good. It is not a wine-of-all-work like Sherry Mr. Pendennis was right when he declined to drink it with his dinner. [ William ...

(Notes on Port List.) It should be observed that the relative frequency with which the names of shippers occur does not invariably involve a higher estimate on my own part, owning to the fact noticed in the chapter on the subject, of the partiality of some wine merchants for some shippers. This is ...

I subjoin a list of the ports in my cellar at different or the same times. SHIPPERS AND YEARS Cockburn Dow Croft Sandeman 1851 1870 1875 1863 --81 --78 --85 --67 --84 --87 --87 --70 --90 --90 --94 --72 --96 --96 1900 --73 1900 --99 --04 --78 1904 --81 --87 Martinez Warre Graham --90 1880 1878 1881 -...

So no more, save a postscript, of ‘the Englishman’s wine’ ; though I should like to talk of a curious Dow, as deep in colour as a wine bottled at thirty months, but otherwise completely ‘tawny’ in character ; of the ’04’s and their wonderfully rapid development (some of which a friend gave me at Bel...

On another point of interest, the possession of so large a number of different vintages and shipments enables one to give a pretty well-based opinion ; and that is the extreme uncertainty of the keeping qualities even of a fortified wine like port. I have already hinted, and may now state more preci...

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