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Graham's vertical
Posted: 18:35 Mon 28 Oct 2013
by Glenn E.
I purchased a ready-made Graham's vertical from 1963 through 2007. Since that purchase, 2011 has been declared and I have obtained a 1955 and a 1948. So I would like to extend my vertical back to 1948 inclusive.
Which means I need to pick up a 2011 and... 1960? Was there another general declaration (or just Graham's declaration) between 1948 and 1963?
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 18:43 Mon 28 Oct 2013
by djewesbury
When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was an invitation. Now I am disappointed.
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 18:56 Mon 28 Oct 2013
by RAYC
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 23:38 Mon 28 Oct 2013
by Glenn E.
djewesbury wrote:When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was an invitation.
Some day it will be! But apparently I must first acquire a 1960 and a 2011.
I leave 1945, 1942, 1935, 1927, 1924, 1920, 1917, 1912, 1908, 1904, 1901, 1897, 1896, 1894, 1892, and 1890 to you.
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 02:10 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by g-man
i have 6 of the 1960
sooooooooooooooo that'll be my ticket
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 02:59 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by marc j.
Glenn,
I believe that Graham also declared 1954. Check out Suckling's book, he has TN on it and it is also listed on vintageport.se. If I recall correctly it was a small declaration so finding bottles of it 60 years later is a tad difficult..
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 09:10 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by uncle tom
I believe that Graham also declared 1954
I suspect this is an error by Suckling, and that the .se site lifted some of its data from his book.
There was a 1954 Malvedos, rarely seen, but noted by Broadbent. Although Graham rattled off some consecutive declarations up until 1901, their declaration strategy has been very conservative since.
I have seen no other evidence of a '54 Graham..
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 10:30 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by TLW
I would be delighted to contribute a 2011 magnum (when they arrive at the cellar) in exchange for an invitation!!!!
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 16:51 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by Axel P
Do include the Malvedos 65 as this is a very good Port to enjoy. We did a Malvedos Tasting at the RAF Club some years ago and if you do have all the good stuff for educational reasons do include some Malvedos.
Axel
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 19:43 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by marc j.
uncle tom wrote:I believe that Graham also declared 1954
I suspect this is an error by Suckling, and that the .se site lifted some of its data from his book.
There was a 1954 Malvedos, rarely seen, but noted by Broadbent. Although Graham rattled off some consecutive declarations up until 1901, their declaration strategy has been very conservative since.
I have seen no other evidence of a '54 Graham..
I think you're right. Suckling doesn't list a TN for the 1954 Malvedos, which I know was produced and bottled. Mystery solved!
Re: Graham's vertical
Posted: 22:55 Tue 29 Oct 2013
by jdaw1
From a draft of a chapter of a book (forthcoming, eventually):
â–º Christopher & Co., Christmas 1960: ‟Christopher’s (Shipped by Graham) 1954”, bottled in England, at 18/6 per bottle.
â–º In a memorandum for the Jesus College Cambridge Cellar Committee dated 10th May 1957, ‟Grahams did not declare a vintage but shipped their 1954 wine under the name of "Grahams Special Vintage"; I have reserved 10 dozen of this.” A later cellar list has the shipper as Dolamore and the price as 17/4.
â–º Brasenose College Oxford served ‟Graham 1954” at the Gaudies of 26 March and 1 October 1971.
â–º Noted in James Suckling (1990), though in the ‟Graham” list rather than in ‟Graham’s Malvedos”.
â–º Michael Broadbent (1980): ‟Graham’s Malvedos”, tasted in 1972 and 1979, who also reports that Graham’s ‟despite my misgivings was selected as Harvey’s ’54”.
â–º In the premises of The Wine Society is an empty bottle bearing an elegant unfussy label in black and a little red writing on white: ‟Crusted Port Wine”, ‟Malvedos”, ‟Vintage 1954”, ‟Bottled 1956”. The Wine Society Numbering Book records the purchase from Reid, Pye & Campbell of ‟Graham 1954 Malvedos”, even assigning it the reference MO. But the only 1954 port ever to appear in a Wine Society catalogue was ‟Quinta Boa Vista, the only wine shipped of this vintage”.
- Some of these refer to ‟Malvedos”, or a variant thereof. Some do not. The use of a Quinta name for junior vintage port was novel in the 1950s, and the authors suspect that some of the English bottlers might have labelled it plain ‟Graham”. If this suspicion is correct, then these were all Malvedos.