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Quinta de Ventozelo has declared their 2019 Vintage Port (source: https://www.revistadevinhos.pt/noticias/quinta-de-ventozelo-declara-vinho-do-porto-vintage-2019 ) Thanks!! Hadn’t heard of these guys before. Will see if it can be found stateside Having not found stateside, order placed to a Portugu...

Chris Doty wrote: ↑00:34 Tue 18 May 2021 Text me your address and I’ll send you a bottle

Don't worry about it

That zero nose is intriguing.

winesecretary wrote: ↑20:55 Mon 17 May 2021 A mere 3 dozen of port...

Amateurs.

I might not be available, as I'll be getting my 102nd covid booster shot around this time.

I have 10 bottles each from cases of 12 of Dow 1983 and Dow 1985 which I suspect might all prove to be flawed. Some kind of bacterial thing, it is not TCA. So you bought opened cases with 10 wines left, and it seems they all are flawed? It's sad that someone might do that, but not a total surprise....

uncle tom wrote: ↑05:45 Sun 16 May 2021

I have around 60 bottles. I don't need that many.

PM me..

Done.

JacobH wrote: ↑10:03 Sun 16 May 2021 Interesting how two companies launch the same product at almost the same time.

Make that three companies. Quinta da Boeira is also releasing a portonic (theirs comes in a little bottle, instead of a can).

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑20:01 Sat 15 May 2021
Keep the 10 yr. it’s very good. Sell the rest.

I have around 60 bottles. I don't need that many.

uncle tom wrote: ↑19:06 Sat 15 May 2021

Like the Val de Figueira 10yo, I'm gonna try to sell most of them, keep a few of each, and use the proceeds to buy better wine

When were they bottled?

The Val da Figueira 10yo? Some in 2003, some in 2005, and som don't have a bottling date.

Anyone had a recent buy? I got 2 x Churchill's 2011 and 2 x Noval 2007, both at auction. I also found in my basement: 12 x Casa do Douro Colheita 1963, 42 x Casa do Douro Colheita Lágrima 1963, 54 x Casa do Douro Colheita 1964, and 6 x Casa do Douro Colheita Branco 1964. Good find. A seriously larg...

:!: :!: How large is your basement that you can find 114 bottles of Port? :shock: I had also previously found 70-something bottles of Quinta Val da Figueira 10yo :o There's still one unopened cabinet, it has a bunch of individual cardboard boxes, with very old dates written on them, but I don't kno...

Doggett wrote: ↑08:27 Sat 15 May 2021 Anyone had a recent buy?

I got 2 x Churchill's 2011 and 2 x Noval 2007, both at auction.

I also found in my basement: 12 x Casa do Douro Colheita 1963, 42 x Casa do Douro Colheita Lágrima 1963, 54 x Casa do Douro Colheita 1964, and 6 x Casa do Douro Colheita Branco 1964.

Good find.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑20:01 Fri 14 May 2021

Doggett wrote:Isn’t the bottle under discussion sealed with an appropriately sized T-stopper rather than a driven cork?

I don’t know. But the same issues still apply.

To a lesser extent, since the stopper is much shorter.

Doggett wrote: ↑17:45 Fri 14 May 2021 Isn’t the bottle under discussion sealed with an appropriately sized T-stopper rather than a driven cork?

Excellent point.

n.b. While the above suggests that the level could well be higher (from a risk perspective), and I agree that aesthetically that would be more pleasing, I don't think you can fairly call it a "poor fill" unless the volume of liquid supplied is less than specified. I agree with this. But l...

Great buy!

Although in my opinion they should rethink that bottle, the fact that the neck has such a large empty portion just looks...wrong.

I assume blending in general (in the winery). The quantities you'll be handling are so small (in terms of surface area and time of exposure) that the evaporation can be regarded as negligible (unless you leave them exposed to air for a very, very long time).

Quinta de Ventozelo has declared their 2019 Vintage Port (source: https://www.revistadevinhos.pt/noticias/quinta-de-ventozelo-declara-vinho-do-porto-vintage-2019 ) Thanks!! Hadn’t heard of these guys before. Will see if it can be found stateside Quinta de Ventozelo is one of the largest estates in ...

I find 6ºC even too cold for light-bodied white table wines (too many scents are lost, in my opinion; I like 7/8ºC), let alone tawny Port.

You have a lot of keys!

JacobH wrote: ↑20:59 Wed 05 May 2021 According to The Drinks Business they are releasing 1,700 bottles of this at a RRP of £3,950, giving each pipe a gross retail value of around £3.35M. I am sure it would be unfair to speculate what sort of quality of Quinta one could purchase for that sum

Do you mean an actual Quinta?

Yes, well spotted. "Produced" is indeed a bit vague.

Does anyone know why it has a year and a bottling date? Current practice for Crusted is that the big year on the bottle is the bottling year and the contents are usually a mixture of different vintages (sometimes disclosed, sometimes not). Was this effectively a LBV? (PS. A fascinating Port to try,...

Well, I obviously cannot compete with your knowledge of Noval (although I put forward Noval merely as an example, I could've mentioned other producers that have been releasing their main VP's almost every year for the last decade , give or take). But answering your question: I would compare a Chryse...