Here's the Buying Op you've been waiting for!

[Bryan H.]

I grabbed a bit over 3 cases, colheitas and wine.

The better half prefers tawnies and colheitas, and I've regretted not buying more colheitas from some of the previous buying ops. They are harder to find, so I jumped on this one.

Mine came Thursday as well.

Fall would be good for me. Time to reload, and also I've got a busy summer so I'll be checking in here a bit less.

[Al B.]

I guess wood-aged Ports are now mainstream here amongst the Port cognoscenti.

But not with all of us!

Now to figure out how to get a global offering before the end of the year. I do have one amazing idea. But I don't want to offer it until people have time to reload their wallets. Suggestions as to a time frame? Remember this is just for the next offering, now when the bottles will ship. So your input is important.

The UK supermarkets have recently been doing their best to mop up any spare cash I might have had. Today I walked into yet another supermarket who has been running an offer of "buy any 6 bottles and get 25% off" - with this 25% discount being on top of any other discounts they were offering. I cleared the shelf of Vargellas 1998 that was discounted down to £11.25 per bottle, bought lots of Symington Family Estates 1994 BoB (which I think is Quarles Harris) at £16, a 6 pack of Noval 2001 LBV at £11 per bottle and bought enough 2000 and 2004 vintage Champagne to keep my wife happy for at least the next 2 weeks! A global offer in the Fall would be about the right timing for me too