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jdaw1 wrote:

djewesbury wrote:1814 Madeira

Never seen a ’14 before. Are you sure it wasn’t 1815?

Page 147 of the script says 1814.

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

djewesbury wrote:1814 Madeira

Never seen a ’14 before. Are you sure it wasn’t 1815?

Page 147 of the script says 1814.

Thank you DRT. I was certain my memory was correct on this occasion.. Doesn't Mycroft say something about it dating from the year before Waterloo..?

LGTrotter wrote:Fantastic, Basil Rathbone in the lead?

Not Rathbone, Robert Stephens. The campest Holmes ever. He was married to Maggie Smith, and channels Miss Jean Brodie all the way through, as one of the people I was with pointed out...

DRT wrote:Page 147 of the script says 1814.

The Script wrote:I have a treat for you -- a very old Madeira -- 1814. There are only six bottles left in the world. I have two of them, and am negotiating for a third.

Which explains my non-acquaintance with it.

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Page 147 of the script says 1814.

The Script wrote:I have a treat for you -- a very old Madeira -- 1814. There are only six bottles left in the world. I have two of them, and am negotiating for a third.

Which explains my non-acquaintance with it.

This leaves three bottles unaccounted for. I'm expecting a full report..

djewesbury wrote:This leaves three bottles unaccounted for. I'm expecting a full report..

Probably one of them was drunk at The Bell, a year I was abroad. Leaving only two.

This seems to be my 100th post. What am I now?

Oh that's nice. Fonseca LBV, yes, I'll drink (to) that.

Now is our chance. This would look just swell mounted on the end-table in the Bung Hole.

It was standing for about 3 hours after I got it home from the store. Now it's open.... 2007 Quarles Harris LBV

Andy Velebil wrote:It was standing for about 3 hours after I got it home from the store. Now it's open.... 2007 Quarles Harris LBV

Post a TN won't you, curious to hear what this is like..

djewesbury wrote:

Andy Velebil wrote:It was standing for about 3 hours after I got it home from the store. Now it's open.... 2007 Quarles Harris LBV

Post a TN won't you, curious to hear what this is like..

I will prob follow this over a couple days..if it lasts that long

Will post a TN soon

'63 & 66 Grahams, need someone to help me drink them.

mosesbotbol wrote:
'63 & 66 Grahams, need someone to help me drink them.

Road Trip!

1 x G83.
A 30th birthday tomorrow. In the main, they are not port drinkers. So this is personal consumption. I hope.

To be opened coming Sunday (for my and my dad's Fathersday ): Niepoort 1997.
It'll be the first time I'll be opening such a youngster, but while opening my 6 botle case yesterday (in order to make some more room in my cellar, as bottles take up much less space than when still in the OWC), I found that one of the bottles was/is showing signs of seepage (and rather a lot of it ). So I'm hoping it will still give enjoyment coming Sunday !

gerwin.degraaf wrote:one of the bottles was/is showing signs of seepage (and rather a lot of it ).

Oh.. just bought a few bottles of this. Hope yours is OK!

djewesbury wrote:

gerwin.degraaf wrote:one of the bottles was/is showing signs of seepage (and rather a lot of it ).

Oh.. just bought a few bottles of this. Hope yours is OK!

Thanks, I'm hoping it is too! I will report back on how it turned out .

gerwin.degraaf wrote:To be opened coming Sunday (for my and my dad's Fathersday ): Niepoort 1997.
It'll be the first time I'll be opening such a youngster, but while opening my 6 botle case yesterday (in order to make some more room in my cellar, as bottles take up much less space than when still in the OWC), I found that one of the bottles was/is showing signs of seepage (and rather a lot of it ). So I'm hoping it will still give enjoyment coming Sunday !

It might be worth having a back-up. As well as the seepage problem, a lot of these bottles (even the "non-seepers") have serious VA problems. I have sore experience with this wine. But the nice bottles are really very nice.

See this thread for the background where Andy V. quoted some interesting emails from Dirk N. about this wine.

RAYC wrote:

gerwin.degraaf wrote:To be opened coming Sunday (for my and my dad's Fathersday ): Niepoort 1997.
It'll be the first time I'll be opening such a youngster, but while opening my 6 botle case yesterday (in order to make some more room in my cellar, as bottles take up much less space than when still in the OWC), I found that one of the bottles was/is showing signs of seepage (and rather a lot of it ). So I'm hoping it will still give enjoyment coming Sunday !

It might be worth having a back-up. As well as the seepage problem, a lot of these bottles (even the "non-seepers") have serious VA problems. I have sore experience with this wine. But the nice bottles are really very nice.

See this thread for the background where Andy V. quoted some interesting emails from Dirk N. about this wine.

Thanks for the tip Rob (should have thought of it myself as well of course!). I'll make sure to stand up a back-up bottle (I am tempted to take out a 1991 Q. de Vargellas to see where that one is in it's development). And even when the Niepoort 1997 turns out allright, it would be a bit of a hassle to lay the Vargellas down again of course

gerwin.degraaf wrote:

RAYC wrote:

gerwin.degraaf wrote:To be opened coming Sunday (for my and my dad's Fathersday ): Niepoort 1997.
It'll be the first time I'll be opening such a youngster, but while opening my 6 botle case yesterday (in order to make some more room in my cellar, as bottles take up much less space than when still in the OWC), I found that one of the bottles was/is showing signs of seepage (and rather a lot of it ). So I'm hoping it will still give enjoyment coming Sunday !

It might be worth having a back-up. As well as the seepage problem, a lot of these bottles (even the "non-seepers") have serious VA problems. I have sore experience with this wine. But the nice bottles are really very nice.

See this thread for the background where Andy V. quoted some interesting emails from Dirk N. about this wine.

Thanks for the tip Rob (should have thought of it myself as well of course!). I'll make sure to stand up a back-up bottle (I am tempted to take out a 1991 Q. de Vargellas to see where that one is in it's development). And even when the Niepoort 1997 turns out allright, it would be a bit of a hassle to lay the Vargellas down again of course

It seems I've been lucky ! The bottle showed great (with an extended decant time at least). Will post a TN in a bit!

We've let this thread slide a little. I'm sure we've drunk something since June..

I am standing a bottle of Warre 85 for dinner.

A pre-WW2 bottle with signs of slight seepage, to be drunk in The Bell in December.

jdaw1 wrote:A pre-WW2 bottle with signs of slight seepage, to be drunk in The Bell in December.

You win.

The remnants of a really stinky bottle of Graham Vintage XXXX from last night. I promised I would see if it got any better after 24 hours.