In late 2013/early 2014 AHB wrote:Now for some cellar statistics:
92% of my cellar is Port, 3% Bordeaux, 2% Champagne, 1% Australian and the rest bits and pieces with no single source accounting for more than 0.5% of my bottles.
88% of my Port corks are in 75 or 70cl bottles, 9% in half bottles, 3% in large formats.
69% of my Port is Vintage Port, 24% is single quinta VP, 5% is LBV, 1% is Crusted and the remainder is NV, odds and sods and brown sticky stuff.
I have 446 different ports. 9% is from the 2011 vintage, 8% is from 1963 and 6% from 1994. 56% of my Port stocks are ready for drinking (ie. 21 or more years old).
15% of my Port is Vesuvio, 8% is Graham and 8% is Warre.
My cellar statistics are ready to be updated for the end of the 2014 calendar year (I still have quite a few tasting notes to type up so it will be a while before I can post tasting statistics).
My aim was to end 2014 with fewer bottles than I started. I failed; I have 7 more bottles now than I did at this time last year. However, that is the smallest increase I have managed in the last 15 years so all is not lost. Next year should see the number go down. This year my purchases were 3% Bordeaux, 5% Champagne, 10% English White Wine, 1% English Sparkling Wine, 1% other French, 1% Italian, 51% Port, 4% Portuguese, 8% South African, 16% Spanish.
4% of the corks I bought were in half bottles, 8% were in larger format, 88% were in 75cl bottles.
Of the Port purchased, 4% was LBV, 4% was crusted, 2% was colheita and the rest was vintage port.
91% (2013: 92%) of my cellar is Port, 3% (3%) Bordeaux, 2% (2%) Champagne, 1% (1%) Australia, 1% (<0.5%) South Africa, 1% (<0.5%) Spain and the rest bits and pieces with no other single source accounting for more than 0.5% of my bottles.
88% (88%) of my Port corks are in 75cl bottles, 8% (9%) in half bottles, 4% (3%) in large formats.
69% (69%) of my Port is Vintage Port, 25% (24%) is single quinta VP, 5% (5%) is LBV, 1% (1%) is Crusted and there is a handful of NV, odds and sods and brown sticky stuff.
I have 457 (446) different ports. 9% (9%) is from the 2011 vintage, 8% (8%) is from 1963 and 7% (6%) from 1994. 61% (56%) of my Port stocks are ready for drinking (ie. 21 or more years old).
15% (15%) of my Port is Vesuvio, 8% (8%) is Graham, 8% (7%) is Fonseca and 8% (8%) is Warre.