For The Love Of Port

Irish Catholic Meat Counter Manager

Good luck to all. Please practice safe bidding and stay within your budgets. Check your emotions at the front door!

Roy, Good tips. This is exactly why I put in absentee bids :)

Really good point Heather. Unlke a few other auctions where I am able to put an overall auction total I am willing to spend, Chrisitie's doesn't appear to have that sort of stop-put option. So yeah, if I get all the lots I put bids on, the credit card is gonna take a ding

I can't attend as I live in Alaska and am in Mexico at the moment! But I did place a few absentee bids......

maybe we can look to Mr wiseman to keep us all posted!?

8 Dec Fine Wines and Spirits Featuring an Extraordinary Collection of 18th and 19th Century Madeira

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lfse ... leID=21325

Wow....Some awesome reading even if not bidding!

8 Dec Fine Wines and Spirits Featuring an Extraordinary Collection of 18th and 19th Century Madeira

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lfse ... leID=21325

Wow....Some awesome reading if even not bidding!

I'll post this same post in the marketplace section too.

I cellar VP's, and Colheitas. And i do have a few LBV's in there that, Like Andy, i want to see how they age. This is since early in my Port drinking career i scored a huge mixed lot of VP's, LBV, and Ruby that was bottled mainly in the 80's. i drank them circa 2000-2 and thought several of the LBV'...

Should be a big long Port and wine filled weekend. My wife and I rented a house in the mountains for Thanksgiving and Saturday is our wedding anniversary. So we'll celebrate with an intimate Thanksgiving feast of organic turkey and whatnot accompanied by Gary Farrell pinot and zin (my newfound favs)...

Me two....Thanks Roy! At that price, I snagged a case, plus two bottles of the 2000 Croft for $29.99

I can’t really speak to the other flavors, but I’d love to get a taste of that bottle. If San Diego and Edmonton were closer, I could even bring over a flawed bottle of my own.

Now Bryan....that's one off-line I wouldn't walk next door for

Ha, I musta graduated from Andy's school of value, or volume to price ratio...I usually ask for my port in a brandy glass for the same reason as they almost always pour more, especially when they realize those thumbnail glasses are basically shot size.....

Roy, Right now i have an airline ticket reserved for NYC that will allow me to attend this event! Yahoo! Now I also have another ticket to Mexico reserved. Not sure which one it is going to be. It'd be so great to go thru this tasting with you....my two favorite houses with Fonseca a slight number o...

36 yrs old; married; no kids (just airfare and wine to date)

Executive Director of a statewide non profit organization (NGO) that works to promote healthy, energy efficient and sustainable homes and buildings in Alaska.

Other Hobbies: Politics--I started a few statewide PAC's for Alaska's conservation community and volunteer for the rare statesman I think ought be elected. Food/entertaining--I love to grill and love to cook and entertain. My wife and I recently helped start two foodie groups, one "Cine Vino&qu...

Roy, Send me 10% of your Madeira collection and I promise to endlessly post my impressions of each and every one both here and the TN section :lol: But seriously (although I am serious above too ) I don't seem to have easy access or budget to get after drinking a bunch more Madeira. I love it, but t...

I think that one's trophy bottles might sometime be just another's house VP. Some of my probably rather ordinary VP's that I have drunk have become empty "trophy bottles" on various display shelves simply because I don't get to drink them often, and they usually remind me of the special oc...

You could pre-decant something, re-bottle it with a T stopper so that it is ready for serving?? It does take away the cache of the grandness of opening an old bottle with an audience however.

My Port consumption definetly increases in the cold and dark Alaska winters. While it is light outside during the summer, dinner doesn't even happen until 10PM and there is usually a lot less lounging around inside in the evenings. Type: I think my tawny consumption stays about the same all year rou...

I got an early start on the weekend and pre-opened a '95 Fonseca Guimaraens for some bottle decanting time. Pretty tasty and pretty tight and big right off the bottle being opened. I look forward to actually drinking it tonite! I have a gourmet supper club 'meeting' on Saturday with an italian theme...

Kevin, I have wine searcher pro and the 1965 Rocha turned up for $200 at the merchant below, Primovino. I don't know them at all, so not sure on their reputation. I also share your appreciation for Rocha's old Tawnies and thoroughly enjoyed their 150 Anniversary tawny by he glass at a wine bar sorta...