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[jdaw1]

I am quite proud of myself. This year I have bought many fewer bottles of port than I have taken out of my stocks and I am on track to take out the planned number. This is the first year in my records when my port collection will have shrunk - a very odd feeling!

On this website you have admitted to being a harvest 1963 baby. So you are now 51. That is the sort of age at which Port stocks can safely stop growing. Relax. (And speak to Ben about longevity insurance.)

[DRT]

My Port collection has also shrunk this year, but mostly because I sold a small stash of daily drinkers that I no longer need. I have bought almost no Port in 2014.

[DRT]

I am quite proud of myself. This year I have bought many fewer bottles of port than I have taken out of my stocks and I am on track to take out the planned number. This is the first year in my records when my port collection will have shrunk - a very odd feeling!

On this website you have admitted to being a harvest 1963 baby. So you are now 51. That is the sort of age at which Port stocks can safely stop growing. Relax. (And speak to Ben about longevity insurance.)

A Vintage Port Longevity Swap is an interesting concept.

[djewesbury]

24 x W00 halves

[differentdave]

Lots of 2011 Vintage port purchased over past few weeks. Some of the more notables were:
6l Croft 2011
3l Dows, Fonseca, Taylor 2011
1.5l Dows, Fonseca, Taylor, Croft 2011
750 ml Every 2011 Vintage Port I could purchase at a fair price.

[djewesbury]

6 litre. You plan not to die for decades.

[LGTrotter]

6 litre. You plan not to die for decades.

Or have an eye to the future. A cellar, considered rightly, is a thing that can have a life beyond one person. It would be how many of my relatives I would have to put up with to drink the thing that would trouble me. But one could leave it to be opened at the wake...

[uncle tom]

A cellar, considered rightly, is a thing that can have a life beyond one person.

+1

It is easy to forget that many of the bottles we buy at auction would not be there but for the decision of someone to buy bottles he or she would never live to drink.

I don't think too much about whether I will ever get to drink a bottle of VP, I prefer to make sure the collective age of all my bottles doesn't fall - currently 169,796 years, and gaining another fifteen every day, less drinkages..

[djewesbury]

Yes, ensuring your cellar age is equal to nearly 170 millennia is obviously one way of doing it!

[LGTrotter]

It sounds like a lot until you realise that Tom has to wait more than a week between bottles of '08 to make the system work. Imagine; more than a week!

That's a will of iron.

[flash_uk]

- currently 169,796 years

So that is roughly 315 cases/12 of 1970 port.

[djewesbury]

I thought that was about right, I guess the average age of Tom's bottles would probably be around 45 years so around 4,000ish bottles.

[uncle tom]

I guess the average age of Tom's bottles would probably be around 45 years so around 4,000ish bottles.

As of this moment - thirty years, one month, twenty days, two hours and seventeen minutes - total VP count: 5,634 bottles

[LGTrotter]

A cellar, considered rightly, is a thing that can have a life beyond one person.

+1

It is easy to forget that many of the bottles we buy at auction would not be there but for the decision of someone to buy bottles he or she would never live to drink.

I feel sorry that these bottles, I assume something must have gone wrong in the sucession for it to get sold off. I am already teeing up various nephews (only 1 niece in New Zealand, wouldn't make the journey) but I am sure the ungrateful wretches will flog it as soon as I'm underground. My recent favourite has blotted his copybook by suggesting I mash up fruit into port. *shudders*.

[jdaw1]

I am available for adoption as a nephew.

And even, if strictly necessary, and subject to certain exceptions, as a niece.

[djewesbury]

This is an interesting topic. Perhaps we should split off into a separate topic: "who are you leaving your port to?"

I have a niece I am hoping to educate. She's just turned 16 and lives in Land's End so has lived a very Good Life until now.

[LGTrotter]

I am available for adoption as a nephew.

And even, if strictly necessary, and subject to certain exceptions, as a niece.

Delicious as the suggestion is Julian here we are considering the next generation. There is another Owen Carroll out there, related to me who seems to have put on the yellow jersey for the present.

[djewesbury]

Please, reconsider that last word. Google prison slang.

[LGTrotter]

A case of Smith Woodhouse 1977 from Berrys. Liked it, liked it again at the port walk, now I've got a box and can shut up about it. With the extra bit off quite reasonable.

[djewesbury]

Ooh, get you! Good choice.

[LGTrotter]

Ooh, get you! Good choice.

Thanks for the endorsement, I need reassurance on these occasions. I have had a bit of an itchy trigger finger since I saw this one, then, after a few glasses of despicable Rhone I noticed the reduction. No doubt you have bought twenty gallons of 31 Noval for the same price at Strakers this week.

[djewesbury]

I have bought nothing but a few halves of different Wine Society champagnes (inc Pol) for a taste test next week (under your influence). And my halves of W00.

[Alex Bridgeman]

A case of Smith Woodhouse 1977 from Berrys. Liked it, liked it again at the port walk, now I've got a box and can shut up about it. With the extra bit off quite reasonable.

Out of interest, how long is a 9l box of port likely to last you?

[LGTrotter]

A case of Smith Woodhouse 1977 from Berrys. Liked it, liked it again at the port walk, now I've got a box and can shut up about it. With the extra bit off quite reasonable.

Out of interest, how long is a 9l box of port likely to last you?

It varies. They seem to last longer these days but mainly because I have a bit more variety to call on. My favourites (Graham 85) I would get through a case in 3 or 4 years at a guess. But I tend to be a bit more profligate with ports I know I can replace quite easily. I will probably leave the SW77 at Berry's for a year or two then drink about a bottle a year until I'm down to the last few at which point I will slow up. I find it nearly impossible to drink my last one of any port, except if I only ever had one to start with in which case I want to try it. The SW77 is in two half cases which means that I might get one down early, dunno, never had half cases before. Oh the agony of choice.

Despit my good intentions if I find a port which seems à point I lay into it without realising, on such occasions the box is gone rather quicker than I have suggested.

Whisper it quietly but I seem to be drinking less port this season than I have for years. Too much talking and not enough drinking in my opinion.

Out of interest, how long is a 9l box of port likely to last you?

Will you show me yours now I've shown you mine?

[differentdave]

3x 2011 Dow 6 pack 750 ml in owc
10X 1997 Sandeman Vau Vintage Port Magnums
12x 1994 Rozes Vintage Port
12x 2011 Fonseca
12x 2011 Grahams
12x 2011 Taylor
12x 2011 Warres