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Hello,could anyone help? My wife and I came across a bottle of port in her mothers house but we are unable to identify its age it is a sandeman ruby port with no date featured on the label it does however resemble some labels from circa 1940/1950
The label does feature a serial number 10D-262196
Any help would be greatly appreciated

We might well be able to help if you could post some pictures of the bottle, the label, the serial number, the base and the capsule.

But if you're asking in the hope that the bottle will be worth something, please be prepared to be disappointed. If this is a bottle of Sandeman Ruby from the 1940s it is worth more or less nothing.

Is there an email address I can send images to I've tried to add a picture as an attachment but it says the file is to large

You are welcome to email the pictures to me (contact details) and I’ll cope.

This looks very similar to a bottle of the same port that some of us here drank in the Douro a few years ago.

The Royal Appointmemt at the top of the label suggests it was bottled no later than 1952 so it is indeed very old, particularly for a ruby port.

The one I took to the Douro cost me £10, and I think that's about as much as this one is worth.

Here is the tasting note from the bottle we had: http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=27605

DRT wrote:This looks very similar to a bottle of the same port that some of us here drank in the Douro a few years ago.

That bottle pre-dated the man-with-cape branding; this bottle has it.

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:This looks very similar to a bottle of the same port that some of us here drank in the Douro a few years ago.

That bottle pre-dated the man-with-cape branding; this bottle has it.

Hence why I said similar rather than the same. It is the same port from different time periods, perhaps 20 to 30 years apart.

Baz404: you have a curiosity of little value. Why not open it? If still good, that’s great; if not, little lost.

But please do come back to this thread and tell us what you thought of its contents. Thank you.