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Glenn E. wrote: ↑18:23 Thu 18 Mar 2021

Justin K wrote: ↑17:42 Thu 18 Mar 2021 Finally after over 30 years of attending auctions a 1961 bottle came up and I got it!!!! Noval Crusted 1961 (Alex tells me it is a sort of vintage as it was bottled in 1964) for €240 plus commission so the most expensive Port I have ever bought...because I'm worth it.

Congrats! It's always nice to pick up birth-year bottles.

Keep an eye out for 1961 Krohn, both VP and Colheita. They're very good.

European Wine Resources - which is in California - has 3+ cases available at $265+tax per bottle. Pricey, but not outrageous for something that old in the US. There's a place in Denmark that has it for $280/bottle.

hadge wrote: ↑13:30 Tue 23 Mar 2021 just won a couple of lots of birth year (1984) LBV! but at crazy prices for LBV's and neither have a listing on WS, therefore very pleased to have got them.

MigSU wrote: ↑13:45 Tue 23 Mar 2021

hadge wrote: ↑13:30 Tue 23 Mar 2021 just won a couple of lots of birth year (1984) LBV! but at crazy prices for LBV's and neither have a listing on WS, therefore very pleased to have got them.

Ha, we're from the same year. Terrible year for VP, unfortunately

yeah it was and a bit of a challenge to find ports from the year, so when i do find them i have to try and get them.

uncle tom wrote: ↑15:28 Tue 23 Mar 2021 I was watching that sale - that lot went about four bids above my top limit..

Justin K wrote: ↑19:29 Tue 23 Mar 2021

yeah it was and a bit of a challenge to find ports from the year, so when i do find them i have to try and get them.

If you are still stuck towards 2024 I bought a case of Delaforce QdCorte and I still have 9 or 10 bottles. Wouldn’t be wowing about them tbh.

hadge wrote: ↑21:32 Tue 23 Mar 2021

Justin K wrote: ↑19:29 Tue 23 Mar 2021

yeah it was and a bit of a challenge to find ports from the year, so when i do find them i have to try and get them.

If you are still stuck towards 2024 I bought a case of Delaforce QdCorte and I still have 9 or 10 bottles. Wouldn’t be wowing about them tbh.

thanks, i know that it is bad year, just fun to have and try some,

Will W. wrote: ↑23:29 Tue 23 Mar 2021

hadge wrote: ↑21:32 Tue 23 Mar 2021

Justin K wrote: ↑19:29 Tue 23 Mar 2021

yeah it was and a bit of a challenge to find ports from the year, so when i do find them i have to try and get them.

If you are still stuck towards 2024 I bought a case of Delaforce QdCorte and I still have 9 or 10 bottles. Wouldn’t be wowing about them tbh.

thanks, i know that it is bad year, just fun to have and try some,

1984 was not a complete write off. Not at all. Indeed, 1984 can offer solid value for money. The issue, as you know hadge, is what you might be able to find in (or import into) the UK at reasonable prices, now that Brexit has kicked in, creating challenges in bringing wines to Blighty from the Continent. On the auction market in Europe, particularly in Portugal, the 1984 Calem Foz is ubiquitous at +/- EUR 35/bottle. Burmester from the same year is a bit better at the same price and more readily found in northern Europe (e.g., at Catawiki auctions), though the problem with the 1984 Burmester is a high incidence of cork taint. Or such has been my experience. Guimaraens and Vargellas are both solid, if not markedly better than the Foz and the Burmester, though one oftentimes has to pay a premium for their respective Fonseca and Taylor links.

Everything I have mentioned is drinking well at the minute, at or very near its peak, so you might have something rather pleasant for your 40th in three years. You'll not be blown off your feet, though you'll likewise not be disappointed.

MigSU wrote: ↑00:11 Wed 24 Mar 2021
Catawiki? I see you're a man of culture.

Will W. wrote: ↑23:29 Tue 23 Mar 2021 1984 was not a complete write off. Not at all. Indeed, 1984 can offer solid value for money.

Will W. wrote: ↑13:30 Wed 24 Mar 2021

MigSU wrote: ↑00:11 Wed 24 Mar 2021
Catawiki? I see you're a man of culture.

Ha! More like a man who's bored silly when not working. In all seriousness, when I was living in northern Europe I did find that there were a great many wine merchants in the Netherlands using catawiki to sell VPs from second tier producers at favourable prices, with the shipping fees being minimal if one was not living too far distant. Burmesters from the '80s were frequently on offer, five and seven years back (and I believe still), which is how I came to know fairly well its output.

winesecretary wrote: ↑14:51 Sat 27 Mar 2021 @ Mike J.W. - at a purchase rate of 12 bottles a week, looks like you are building up stocks in advance of retirement...

hadge wrote: ↑09:23 Tue 30 Mar 2021 Thanks for all of the views on 84 and i will be buying a few more when they come up.

bought 4 bottles of 2003 Tesco Vintage Port @ £20 per botttle.

I also found a 97 Tesco in the cellar which I remember someone was looking for a tasting?

MigSU wrote: ↑10:14 Tue 30 Mar 2021

Who makes Tesco's VP?

hadge wrote: ↑11:41 Tue 30 Mar 2021

MigSU wrote: ↑10:14 Tue 30 Mar 2021

Who makes Tesco's VP?

Symington's

Mike J. W. wrote: ↑18:22 Tue 27 Apr 2021 6 x Porto Rocha Three Centuries - 500 ml bottles at a VERY good price.