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winesecretary
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Justin, make sure you are available for next year’s 1970 tasting…
PhilW
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Avery 1970 is understood to be a blend of 2:1 Sandeman:Fonseca blend, with a small amount of Taylor (roughly 0.1by ratio).
Sounds like a bargain price, nice purchase.
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Alex Bridgeman
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I don’t often post in this thread these days, but I called in to Four Walls Wines on my way home this afternoon.

I couldn’t resist this:

Superb Old Tawny Port
Superb Old Tawny Port
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Bottled by Kopke
Bottled by Kopke
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IVP selo
IVP selo
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With an IVP sello the wine was clearly released prior to 2003. Judging by the type-face of the label and the bottle, my guess is that it’s probably a bottle from the early or mid-nineties.

I’ve no idea what the wine is, but I plan to open it and taste it this weekend.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.

2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Excellent looking bottle, Alex. I look forward to reading about how it tastes.
MigSU
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VFOT?
PhilW
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Very Fine Old Tawny?
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Alex Bridgeman
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PhilW wrote: 21:39 Tue 17 Sep 2024 Very Fine Old Tawny?
That’s what I assumed, but don’t know for sure.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.

2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Hmm...likely, yes.
Glenn E.
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IIRC... at that time, and for a Tawny with an indication of age, you could use "old" on the label provided the contents were at least 10 years old at the time of bottling, and you could start using "very old" on the label once the contents were at least 20 years old at the time of bottling. (For a Colheita I believe it was 10 and 30, which is now the standard for both.)

So that's probably something along the lines of the Croft Club Tawny that was... 17 years old? Something between 10 and 20 years old and they didn't want to bottle it has "just" a 10 year old.
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winesecretary
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4 more bottles of 2008 Niepoort Bioma from Fareham for a very reasonable £218 delivered - not very much money for a port that is lovely now and will be lovely later.
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Alex Bridgeman
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winesecretary wrote: 15:16 Mon 23 Sep 2024 4 more bottles of 2008 Niepoort Bioma from Fareham for a very reasonable £218 delivered - not very much money for a port that is lovely now and will be lovely later.
£59 a bottle for a limited edition, old vines, highly selective Port is a ridiculously good price. Nice buy!
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.

2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Excellent buy, to be honest.
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mcoulson
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winesecretary wrote: 15:16 Mon 23 Sep 2024 4 more bottles of 2008 Niepoort Bioma from Fareham for a very reasonable £218 delivered - not very much money for a port that is lovely now and will be lovely later.
On your head be it George - I've just bought the last 4 bottles they have along with some LBV ......

Thanks for the pointer and the review with it's flowery words :lol:
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Just bought cases (6) of Fonseca 85 and Vesuvio 92 at auction. About £650 including shipping.
winesecretary
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@ Rummy- two impeccable ports, both drinking well now or later.
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rich_n
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Rummy wrote:Just bought cases (6) of Fonseca 85 and Vesuvio 92 at auction. About £650 including shipping.
That's a bargain!
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rich_n wrote: 19:21 Wed 25 Sep 2024
Rummy wrote:Just bought cases (6) of Fonseca 85 and Vesuvio 92 at auction. About £650 including shipping.
That's a bargain!
winesecretary wrote: 18:14 Wed 25 Sep 2024 @ Rummy- two impeccable ports, both drinking well now or later.
Am quite happy with these, should open a Fonseca soon, as I already had some cellared.
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Justin K wrote: 15:17 Fri 13 Sep 2024 I’m almost embarrassed about this, almost but not quite😊
Bought at auction 12 x Av ‘70 @ £520.80 all in. Provenance stored by customer’s wine merchants in their cellars until his estate sale. Levels into neck.
Glad they went to a good home, I was the under bidder!
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W60 x 1
G94 x 1
GM96 x 1
WQC78 x 1
DzTP x 1
-M27 x1 (a genuine mislabelled bottle I think so I’ve ended up with something from the 1960’s😂)
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What is “DzTP”?
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Diez Tawny Port. Have I just created a new abbreviation?
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Justin K wrote: 09:15 Mon 30 Sep 2024 Diez Tawny Port. Have I just created a new abbreviation?
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Rummy
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Rummy wrote: 10:24 Wed 25 Sep 2024 Just bought cases (6) of Fonseca 85 and Vesuvio 92 at auction. About £650 including shipping.
Auction had a part 2 apparently, so got cases (6) of Taylor's 92 and 94 as well. About £1.000 for these.
winesecretary
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The Taylor 1992 can be a truly staggering wine, and last time I looked £1800 a dozen retail - so you have done well there too.
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winesecretary wrote: 21:51 Thu 03 Oct 2024 The Taylor 1992 can be a truly staggering wine, and last time I looked £1800 a dozen retail - so you have done well there too.
I wholeheartedly agree, George. I think the 1992 Taylor's is the best Taylor's that I've had to date followed by the 1970. Granted I haven't tasted anything older than the 1963, but the 1992 is in a class by itself. It's both powerful and elegant. Maybe the 1994 will outclass it some day, but that's not the case right now.
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