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3x Dow's 1994
2x Graham's 1980
2x Fonseca Qd Panascal 2005
wussed out on Graham's 1983. Will buy it next time I'm back near that store, and perhaps their last Graham's 80 too.
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6 bottles of Vesuvio 1998 - nice wood box
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ac-fast wrote:6 bottles of Vesuvio 1998 - nice wood box
Here is a link to a TN of my only experience of this wine. I do remember it being delicious for immediate drinking in 2006, which may suggest it isn't one for the long term. Others with more experience of it may disagree.
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SushiNorth wrote:wussed out on Graham's 1983. Will buy it next time I'm back near that store, and perhaps their last Graham's 80 too.
3 bottles 1983 (one for the 83/85 horizontal), one more 1980.
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Just added Foz 63, 66 and 70 to the cellar - but now trying not to buy anything for a while.
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AHB wrote:but now trying not to buy anything for a while.
Yeah, i tried that. Not working so well. If the Dow's 85 is amazing on saturday i may replace it from sohowines, otherwise trying to hold off. That's what The Port Forum needs -- an "I'm not buying any more port" support group.
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I've just come back from Sainsbury's with 6 half bottles of Malvedos 1996, a bottle of Warre 1999 LBV and a bottle of Fonseca Guimaraens 1988. The latter two bottles to be drunk in the next couple of weeks and the half bottles to be tucked away somewhere quiet for the next few months or years.

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AHB wrote:I've just come back from Sainsbury's with 6 half bottles of Malvedos 1996, a bottle of Warre 1999 LBV and a bottle of Fonseca Guimaraens 1988. The latter two bottles to be drunk in the next couple of weeks and the half bottles to be tucked away somewhere quiet for the next few months or years.

Alex
From my experience on Friday lunch, the latter (FG88) needs plenty of decanting time to be at its best! Was this in their -25% sale?
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benread wrote:
AHB wrote:I've just come back from Sainsbury's with 6 half bottles of Malvedos 1996, a bottle of Warre 1999 LBV and a bottle of Fonseca Guimaraens 1988. The latter two bottles to be drunk in the next couple of weeks and the half bottles to be tucked away somewhere quiet for the next few months or years.

Alex
From my experience on Friday lunch, the latter (FG88) needs plenty of decanting time to be at its best! Was this in their -25% sale?
Yes. I picked-up 12 bottles of the Warre's LBV at £9 per bottle and AHB was kind enough to find me 6 halves of GM96. Don't you just love British Supermarket stock control managers :lol:
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6 bottels of Rosez 1994 Vintage - and 2 bottels of Quinta do Crasto LBV 2001 - never tasted it before, have you ?
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ac-fast wrote:6 bottels of Rosez 1994 Vintage - and 2 bottels of Quinta do Crasto LBV 2001 - never tasted it before, have you ?
I’ve had the Crasto which is good stuff, though my experience of it suggested that it needs time in the decanter (or a few more years in the cellar) to really blossom.
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-Taylor-Fladgate 10-year Tawny
-Taylor-Fladgate 20-year Tawny
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jonathanvaljean wrote:-Taylor-Fladgate 10-year Tawny
-Taylor-Fladgate 20-year Tawny
welcome to the boards!

the taylor 20yr tawny is one of my goto tawnies and a treat to have as a night cap
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1997 Sandeman 1.5L (1)
1995 Osborne (1)
2000 Cockburn Qd Canais (2)
2003 Croft (2)
2003 Fonseca (3)
2003 Warres (2)
2000 Warres (1)
1991 Taylor Qd Vargellas (1)
1994 Cockburn (2) (pending pickup)

I am utterly and completely out of space. I need to drink all the table wine so I have where to properly lay down the port.
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I have a Fonseca 1970 at home. Bring a Fonseca 2003 and the Vargellas 1991 and, chez moi, we’ll share the three bottles some time between Christmas and New Year.
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I have 4 bottles of 1999 Quinta de Roriz on the way from winestilsoldout.com as well as 5 bottles of 1964 Dow's Single Year Reserve Port (which I have confirmed is a Colheita) on the way from Benchmark Wine.

$30/bottle and free shipping on the Roriz, so I couldn't pass it up. $60/bottle on the Dow's, which seems pretty cheap to me for a 1964.
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jdaw1 wrote:I have a Fonseca 1970 at home. Bring a Fonseca 2003 and the Vargellas 1991 and, chez moi, we’ll share the three bottles some time between Christmas and New Year.
Infanticide? I'd have to pick up one more of each (which is quite possible today) as the F2003's were bought because ... well, i don't have much fonseca and I'm trying to remedy that :) I'll keep you posted!
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SushiNorth wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:I have a Fonseca 1970 at home. Bring a Fonseca 2003 and the Vargellas 1991 and, chez moi, we’ll share the three bottles some time between Christmas and New Year.
Infanticide? I'd have to pick up one more of each (which is quite possible today) as the F2003's were bought because ... well, i don't have much fonseca and I'm trying to remedy that :) I'll keep you posted!
I happen to have a Fonseca Guiramen's 1991 :twisted:
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g-man wrote:
SushiNorth wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:I have a Fonseca 1970 at home. Bring a Fonseca 2003 and the Vargellas 1991 and, chez moi, we’ll share the three bottles some time between Christmas and New Year.
Infanticide? I'd have to pick up one more of each (which is quite possible today) as the F2003's were bought because ... well, i don't have much fonseca and I'm trying to remedy that :) I'll keep you posted!
I happen to have a Fonseca Guiramen's 1991 :twisted:
Oh dear... well before this splits into a tasting, should we instead be looking at this jdaw proposal and seeing if it all fits together better over there? Or are we about to do a taylor/fonseca 70-91-03 "How do they age" comparison?
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jdaw1 wrote:I have a Fonseca 1970 at home. Bring a Fonseca 2003 and the Vargellas 1991 and, chez moi, we’ll share the three bottles some time between Christmas and New Year.
Made into a tasting: Taylor/Fonseca Maturation Tasting - NYC - late dec 2008
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6 x Vesuvio 1996
6 x Vesuvio 1997

1 x Fonseca 2000
1 x Fonseca 2003

Haven`t tryed some of them
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6 x 1997 Niepoort... about half appear to have been stained up around the neck at some point, but none of the corks are pushed. So I can't tell if this is the infamous Niepoort '97 leakage problem or if they've simply been leaked on from above. The other half appear to be completely clean.

3 x 1985 Graham's

1 x 1966 Graham's
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17 bottles of Vesuvio 1997 and 1 bottle of Warre's 1966 - 15 of these bottles are being sold to various relatives to give back to me as Chistmas presents :cool:
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I've just bought some Morgan 1991 from an impecable source...
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2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Burmester 1997 x 6
Burmester 2003 x 6

Nice price, Imposible to say no :)
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