Vintage Reports and Declarations Index

[SushiNorth]

2014

• 2014 Harvest Report

2013

• 2013 Vintage Outlook

2012

• 2012 Harvest News

2011

• 2011 Formally declared
• 2011 Vintage Harvest Countdown
• 2011 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 2011 Review of TFP, Noval, Romaneira

2010

• 2010 Vintage Port Declarations
• 2010 Harvest Report (Paul Symington)
• 2010 Harvest discussion
• 2010 Premature outlook

2009

• 2009 Vintage Port Declarations and Predictions
• 2009 Vintage harvest countdown
• 2009 Weather Report
• 2009 vintage tasting (in 2012)
• 2009 vintage tasting (in 2011)

2008

• 2008 Vintage Port Declaration
• 2008 Declaration thread
• 2008 Vintage Harvest Countdown
• 2008 Small Crops discussion
• 2008 Speculations
• 2008 vintage tasting (in 2010)

2007

• 2007 Vintage Port Declarations
• 2007 Vintage Port Declaration discussion
• 2007 Vintage Harvest countdown
• 2007 Harvest journaling
• 2007 Speculation
• 2007 Vintage Port Sales
• 2007 UK Release Prices
• 2007 vintage tasting (LBV, in 2013)
• 2007 vintage tasting (in 2011)

2006

• 2006 Vintage Port Declarations

2005

• 2005 Vintage Port Declarations
• 2005 Release prices

1996

• 1996 Vintage discussion

1994

• 1994 vintage tasting (in 2007)

1989

• 1989 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1985

• 1985 Volatile Acidity concerns
• 1985 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1985 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1983

• 1983 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1983 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1983 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1982

• 1982 vintage tasting (in 2010)

1980

• 1980 vintage tasting (in 2012)
• 1980 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1978

• 1978 vintage tasting (in 2010)

1977

• 1977 vintage tasting (in 2012)
• 1977 vintage tasting (in 2012)
• 1977 vintage tasting (in 2008)
• 1977 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1970

• 1970 vintage tasting (in 2012)
• 1970 vintage tasting (in 2011)
• 1970 vintage tasting (in 2011)
• 1970 vintage tasting (in 2010)
• 1970 vintage tasting (in 2009)
• 1970 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1967

• 1967 vintage tasting (in 2009)

1966

• 1966 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1966 vintage tasting (in 2012)
• 1966 vintage tasting (in 2009)
• 1966 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1963

• 1963 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1963 vintage tasting (in 2008)

1960

• 1960 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1960 vintage tasting (in 2010)

1955

• 1955 vintage tasting (in 2013)
• 1955 vintage tasting (in 2010)

Assistance would be much appreciated in linking to older, overlooked threads and other vintage-specific tasting reports.

[jdaw1]

Do you wish to include big horizontal tastings, such as of 1963, 1966, 1970 (a), 1970 (b), 1980, and 1983? And perhaps others (helpful list at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemats_list.html).

[Chris Doty]

1985

• 1985 Volatile Acidity concerns

Assistance would be much appreciated in linking to older, overlooked threads and other vintage-specific tasting reports.

Love the initiative

I don't know if a thread exists on the high failure rate of bottles from 1977 (or worse yet, 75), but if we have a 85 VA thread, it seems like corresponding "vintage analysis" threads are merited.

If we're doing that, we may wish to consider an informal TPF "price guide" which would broadly reflect the prices that we, in theory, would like to pay for a given bottle (updated, say, 1/2 yearly or as merited?). Naturally it can vary due to differences in provenance/appearance/merchant/storage/etc, but these can be adjusted for. I think there would be some interesting applications of such a guide. I dunno. It seems at least that we have invested time in more trivial things.

Anyway, there's a lot of really great material here, and it is cool to this all linked up.

[SushiNorth]

Do you wish to include big horizontal tastings, such as of 1963, 1966, 1970 (a), 1970 (b), 1980, and 1983? And perhaps others (helpful list at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemats_list.html).

Thank you -- I had hoped to link to tastings, too, and have added the ones you identified (and others found on the placemats list). I'll try to go through the reviews forum in the next couple days to spot any that were omitted. I have an excel spreadsheet set up to automate the BBCode and avoid duplication. What else is appropriate to include on this list? We so far have: Declarations (and discussion/speculation), Harvest and Weather reports (and discussion), Release pricing, Tastings, and vintage-wide observations.

[SushiNorth]

Love the initiative
I don't know if a thread exists on the high failure rate of bottles from 1977 (or worse yet, 75), but if we have a 85 VA thread, it seems like corresponding "vintage analysis" threads are merited.
If we're doing that, we may wish to consider an informal TPF "price guide" which would broadly reflect the prices that we, in theory, would like to pay for a given bottle (updated, say, 1/2 yearly or as merited?). Naturally it can vary due to differences in provenance/appearance/merchant/storage/etc, but these can be adjusted for. I think there would be some interesting applications of such a guide. I dunno. It seems at least that we have invested time in more trivial things.

Thanks! I agree that we should include other vintage analysis threads in this, and assistance identifying those would be very welcome.

This thread probably isn't the best one for a full pricing list, but some kind of guide as to what we -- who hunt for bargains -- are paying would likely be a valuable resource.

[SushiNorth]

Just a quick note -- our tasting reviews seem to lack clarity in their titles, making horizontals particularly hard to spot. I've pulled out the obvious ones from the first 3 pages of the index, but it may be that the only effective way to do this is to open each and every thread in there to determine if it is a horizontal or not.