Competition

Simon Lisle · Post by **Simon Lisle** » 11:51 Sun 13 Jan 2008

I received a final demand for port I won from an auction house in europe (which I never knew I'd been the winning bidder).The oldest and youngest are garrafeiras the other bottle is vintage assumed date as it is stencilled on the bottle unknown shipper all good levels.The oldest bottle will probably be the oldest port I'll ever own.I'll give you the prices I payed including bp you tell me the dates one guess per member please.
Bottle one the oldest a garrafeira £310
bottle two assumed vintage from stencilling £73
bottle three garrafeira the youngest £62
The winner will receive a bottle of port from my small collection(Our friends from across the pond we will have to work something out depending on their laws)The competition will close midnight on the 25th of this month.The first two were generally declared the last one some vintage port was made but hard to come by, the closest average of the three wins.

Post by **DRT** » 11:57 Sun 13 Jan 2008

Wow

I'm off to find a haystack so that I can try to find 3 needles in it

I have a feeling we may need a few more clues on this one Simon.

Derek

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 12:06 Sun 13 Jan 2008

I can feel a drunken interrogation coming on before I guess.

we have ways of making you talk...

Simon Lisle · Post by **Simon Lisle** » 22:00 Sun 13 Jan 2008

This is just a bit of fun all the bottles are pre 1960.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 11:36 Mon 14 Jan 2008

All pre-1960 eh? Well, I'm always in for a bit of fun:

Bottle 1 - known facts: garrafeira, oldest bottle Simon is ever likely to own, generally declared vintage, £310 - my guess would be 1834

Bottle 2 - known facts: presumed vintage, generally declared, date stencilled on bottle, £73 - my guess is 1947

Bottle 3 - known facts: garrafeira, generally not a declared vintage, £62 - my guess is 1954

There's my three needles from my haystack.

Alex

Post by **DRT** » 00:41 Tue 15 Jan 2008

Bottle 1 - 1795 (Royal Oporto?)

Bottle 2 - 1955

Bottle 3 - 1957

uncle tom · Post by **uncle tom** » 04:40 Tue 15 Jan 2008

1) 1847

2) 1934

3) 1941

- odds on being right about 1/10,000!

Tom

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 05:12 Tue 15 Jan 2008

unfortunately I'm a bit of a disadvantage that i've never drunk with Simon...

1) 1852

2) 1945

3) 1952

Simon Lisle · Post by **Simon Lisle** » 19:17 Tue 15 Jan 2008

Not bad considering the little information you have but we do have a front runner.

Andy Velebil · Post by **Andy Velebil** » 21:20 Tue 15 Jan 2008

Derek T. wrote:Bottle 1 - 1795 (Royal Oporto?)

Bottle 2 - 1955

Bottle 3 - 1957

that was going to be my guess...you stole my years

Post by **DRT** » 09:11 Wed 16 Jan 2008

g-man wrote:unfortunately I'm a bit of a disadvantage that i've never drunk with Simon...

I can confirm that I have been drunk with Simon but I'm not sure it helped me work this out

Axel P · Post by **Axel P** » 09:54 Wed 16 Jan 2008

I did not drink with Simon either jet -though it would be a pleasure...

1795 is a winner

on the second I would assume 1945, though the price for this is very low (47 might be the better guess): I place 1950

The last garrafeiera is more likely to be an 48 (bottled in 74???), as these can be from declared vintages as well in these days.

Axel

Simon Lisle · Post by **Simon Lisle** » 16:49 Sat 26 Jan 2008

The bottles are as follows 1.1820 need some research on this one to find shipper.2.stencilled 1875.3.Royal oporto 1940 .I'll have to check who is closest I think it was Tom.