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Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 11:25 Mon 26 Jul 2010
by Deleted_User_1
I have just seen a bottle that states 'Matured in Oak Casks since 1944' It then states it was bottled for a well known London store in 1985. Does this make it an 1944 LBV or a straight 1944 VP?
Re: Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 12:57 Mon 26 Jul 2010
by clawhit
Are you referring to a bottle sold recently on ebay by any chance bottled for Harrods? - If so I thought Colheita
Re: Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 13:16 Mon 26 Jul 2010
by Andy Velebil
That would be a Colheita with wording like that.
Re: Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 17:33 Mon 26 Jul 2010
by Alex Bridgeman
Definitely colheita
Re: Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 22:02 Mon 26 Jul 2010
by Glenn E.
Yeah that's clearly a Colheita. IIRC to be an LBV it must be bottled at least 4 years after harvest and no more than 6 years after harvest. 7+ years is a Colheita. VP is between 18 and 30 months after harvest, leaving an interesting gap from 30 months to 4 years during which it cannot be bottled with a year date.
Re: Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 09:34 Tue 27 Jul 2010
by Deleted_User_1
[quote="clawhit"]Are you referring to a bottle sold recently on ebay by any chance bottled for Harrods? - If so I thought Colheita
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I did mean that bottle but I did't buy it.
Re: Is it LBV or Vintage?
Posted: 09:35 Tue 27 Jul 2010
by Deleted_User_1
That will be a Colheita then...many thanks for the information