So what do I open next?

[Alex Bridgeman]

I have very little port at home at the moment and need to decide what to open next - and I just can't make up my mind as most of these bottles are the last of that shipper / vintage that I own.

So help me out - what should I open next?

[benread]

I voted the FG1988 for a number of reasons. Firstly, if it is the last you own this is easily replaceable at reasonable cost. Secondly, it is a nice drinking port now - I know because I enjoyed one with friends to celebrate (commiserate) 20 years of employment on 26th September 2008. We all enoyed it and it was a much heavier weight port than the Quinta da Corte 1987 we had alongside it.

I am sure none will disappoint you, but this is my only experience and one I will happily return to!

Here is raising a toast to you with the last of the F63 sample!

[DRT]

F80 - "drink up"

[Glenn E.]

I voted for the F80 - the one that g-man brought to our tasting in NYC was very good, and it's clearly in its prime right now. No point in saving them, so drink up!

[uncle tom]

Pop the Mz 70 - should be just about mature, and I can find another bottle for you if you like it!

Tom

[Alex Bridgeman]

Oh no! A minor disaster has occurred!!

I went to the cupboard to get the Fonseca 1980 and there was none

My cellar records are wrong. This is extremely worrying. While consoling myself with a bottle of Vin de Constance 2000 I shall conduct a full audit of the remaining bottles immediately. Such a situation cannot be tolerated.

[Axel P]

I just bought a Ferreira 78 and I am wondering how the 77 is like. Otherwise keep it for the second Alex&Axel meet.

Axel

[Alex Bridgeman]

I think I have posted a tasting note on the '77 - I like it a lot!

[Alex Bridgeman]

Stocktake complete. Comparison to stock records now under way.

[jdaw1]

Mz70: good quality fine drinking. Not infanticide, and further bottles eminently obtainable.

And when you write your TN for it, also type your TN for the previous bottle we sampled.

[Andy Velebil]

Hmm, at least the kids only took the F80. Check under their bed for the empty bottle

[jdaw1]

His kids are smart: bottle goes in somebody else’s recycling bin; cork goes in dad’s cork collection.

[Andy Velebil]

His kids are smart: bottle goes in somebody else’s recycling bin; cork goes in dad’s cork collection.

Yes, they are hoping dear old dad will reconstruct it after it broke when they removed it

[Alex Bridgeman]

I also have 1 bottle fewer of Cockburn 1912 than I was expecting ...

[jdaw1]

Yikes! That might not be the kids. (Is that a failure to record one drunk last October, or a genuine case of a missing C12?)

[Alex Bridgeman]

Yikes! That might not be the kids. (Is that a failure to record one drunk last October, or a genuine case of a missing C12?)

That will purely be a failure to record the consumption of the bottle in October - no-one has a key to the wine store except me! No-one else to blame for poor record keeping.

[jdaw1]

Presumably, à la Great Train robbery, a honey trap was used to obtain a wax impression of the keys. Very good.