The run-up to Christmas
- Alex Bridgeman
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The run-up to Christmas
Christmas is rapidly approaching and is often an excuse to open a special bottle of port, but what about the few remaining weeks before Christmas? What do you plan to open as you wait for the special bottle? I estimate that at the rate I consume port and the travelling I am still doing, that I will open a bottle on Friday of this week (7 December), Friday of next week (14 December), Tuesday (18 December) and Friday (21 December).
I was working through the bottles I have at home over the weekend to re-rack them and send some off to off-site storage and I came across some leakers as well as the bottles that I already had on death row.
So - you decide which bottle I should open next out of the 4 that I have identified. The bottle that gets the most votes is the bottle that I will open on Friday and for which I will post a tasting note in due course (the other bottles will be opened between now and Christmas so you should also see tasting notes for those, as well).
Alex
I was working through the bottles I have at home over the weekend to re-rack them and send some off to off-site storage and I came across some leakers as well as the bottles that I already had on death row.
So - you decide which bottle I should open next out of the 4 that I have identified. The bottle that gets the most votes is the bottle that I will open on Friday and for which I will post a tasting note in due course (the other bottles will be opened between now and Christmas so you should also see tasting notes for those, as well).
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Either of the Vesuvios (though I voted for 1994)
Either of the Vesuvios (though I voted for 1994), so that I can read your new note before the tasting on Tue 11th Dec.
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Either of the Vs for me.
If the V92 is almost winning as we approach the deadline, please consider my voted changed from V94 to V92. Either of the Vs for me.
- uncle tom
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I've yet to encounter a leaky Vesuvio - I was beginning to think the Sym's were on to something with their short super-tight corks...
I pitched for the V94 as I've yet to broach one of mine - is it still too young? - I'd like to know.
I was very unimpressed with the V92, and not obviously a duff bottle - so also of interest..
Tom
I pitched for the V94 as I've yet to broach one of mine - is it still too young? - I'd like to know.
I was very unimpressed with the V92, and not obviously a duff bottle - so also of interest..
Tom
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- Alex Bridgeman
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Thank you - I appreciate the vote as this is one of my very top portsDerek T. wrote:I voted for the V94 because I know it to be one of your favourites.
The '92 is from decidedly dodgy storage and came as part of a mini vertical of Vesuvio, many of which are showing signs of leakage. The '92 is the worst.Like Tom I am surprised that you have 2 leaky Vesuvios - are they from a potentially dodgy background?
The '94 worries me far more. This was bought from Berry Brothers and shows no signs at all of any reason for suspecting poor storage.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
- Alex Bridgeman
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Fret not, all the bottles above will be opened before Christmas (probably). The only item up for consideration was which one first.KillerB wrote:I can't handle the idea of not opening a leaker, so went for the better year - 94.
If it had been left purely to me, the '94 would probably have been last since it is my favourite - the joy of anticipation over the joy of instant gratification.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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A hint, hmmm.
Older than any of the ones included on my current death row, as listed in the poll above. Not as old as the one that Uncle Tom just added to his cellar, but roughly half as old.
From a UK shipper, now fading in reputation but with the occasional decent vintage port.
Will be taken out of storage and stood upright in a couple of weeks time.
Alex
Older than any of the ones included on my current death row, as listed in the poll above. Not as old as the one that Uncle Tom just added to his cellar, but roughly half as old.
From a UK shipper, now fading in reputation but with the occasional decent vintage port.
Will be taken out of storage and stood upright in a couple of weeks time.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
1927. Martinez?
Tom’s was the 160-year-old 1847, so this must be 80-year-old 1927. Martinez?
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Delaforce? Hutcheson?
Delaforce? Hutcheson?
- Alex Bridgeman
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Not Delaforce, nor Hutcheson (when did they produce a decent vintage?) nor Hankey Bannister.
You are starting to worry me now. Perhaps this isn't a British shipper and I'm wrong...
Alex
You are starting to worry me now. Perhaps this isn't a British shipper and I'm wrong...
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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