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[Eric Menchen]

The Zachy's The La Paulée Auction auction is this Thursday and Friday. Not much Port as the focus is Burgundy. The only lot I found of interest is #255. Here's the lot, with my estimates of the bottle values not degraded for condition:

Mixed Port
bottom neck or better unless noted
• Constantino 1920 (1)
just below top shoulder
• Constantino 1924 (1)
just below top shoulder, lightly scuffed label
• Dow 1960 (1) $150
very top shoulder
• Quinta do Noval 1963 (1) $100
• Graham 1970 (1) $130
wine-stained and lightly torn label
• Warres 1970 (1) $70
wine-stained label
• Fonseca 1977 (1) $200
• Graham 1983 (1) $70
• Taylor Fladgate 1983 (1) $80, or 0
• Warres 1983 (1) $60
• Dow 1985 (1) $60
opaque bottle, lightly scuffed label
• Graham 1985 (3) $85 x 3
opaque bottles, one lightly torn label, one nicked label,
scuffed labels
• Quinta do Noval 1985 (1) $40
scuffed label
• Smith Woodhouse 1985 (1) $60
• Warres 1985 (1) $60
255 above 17 bottles per lot $1100-1700
Value? First two? Others: $1255 / 1.22 = $1028.

I'm contemplating bidding, but probably don't want to spend $1000 for that.

The next Acker auction is March 3rd. Here are the Port lots.

160 Fonseca Vintage Port - Vintage 1994
1x12 bottle owc
12 bottles per lot $1000-1400
$145 x 12 = $1740 / 1.22 = $1426

711 Dow’s Vintage Port
- Vintage 1945 bsl, wisl, crc (97pts WS) (1)
- Vintage 1963 6bsl, 1wisl (92pts) (6)
- Vintage 1970 12lbsl, 12wasl, 12scl (12)
- Vintage 1977 1ts, 2bsl (94pts WS) half-bottle (2)
- Vintage 1977 10bsl, 10wasl, 3wisl, 2nl (94pts WS) (10)
Above 2 half-bottles and 29 bottles per lot $2400-3500

712 Fonseca Vintage Port
- Vintage 1963 10lbsl, 2nc (98pts WS) (10)
- Vintage 1970 12bsl, 2nl, 2ssos (93pts) (12)
Above 22 bottles per lot $3200-4200

713 Graham’s Vintage Port
- Vintage 1948 hbsl, hwasl (95pts WS) (1)
- Vintage 1963 2bn, 10 btls no labels (10)
- Vintage 1970 11bsl, 2nl, (12)
1 bottle different importer (94+pts JK)
- Vintage 1977 1bn, 6lbsl (93pts) half-bottle (6)
- Vintage 1977 6lbsl, 1sos (93pts) (6)
Above 6 half-bottles and 29 bottles per lot $3800-5500

714 Graham’s Vintage Port - Vintage 1985
half-bottles: 22lbsl, 1nl
bottles: 16bsl, 12wasl, 1nl
Above 22 half-bottles and 16 bottles per lot $1500-2000

715 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - Vintage 1955
6nol
6 bottles per lot $1800-2400

716 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - Vintage 1963
10hbsl, 10gsl, 8wisl, 3crc,
3 bottles different importer
10 bottles per lot $2200-3000

717 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - Vintage 1970
2bn, 9ts, 1hs, 12hbsl, 12hwasl, 9tal, 17crc,
2 bottles different importer
17 bottles per lot $2000-2600

718 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port
- Vintage 1977 10hbsl, 3wisl, 1nl, 10spc, 3sos (96pts) (10)
Warre’s Late Bottled Vintage Port
- Vintage 1977 8bsl, 8wrl, 4wisl, 8sos (8)
Above 18 bottles per lot $1200-1600

I'm definitely interested in #160 and might bid on that one. #712 is very interesting, but more than I can spend. Anyone interested in a split? Most of the others are interesting too, but I haven't given them deep thought yet.

[Russ K]

Eric, your tempting me on that split, more cash down the tubes! 713 is attractive in the lower range too....

[Glenn E.]

160, 712, 713, and 714 all interest me and are all way outside my solo price range. And storage capacity, for that matter. I could probably be easily talked into some sort of group purchase/split if that helps.

Man... with 714 I could almost make G85 my house Port for a good long while!

[Eric Menchen]

The Zachy's The La Paulée Auction ... lot #255 ...
Mixed Port
bottom neck or better unless noted
• Constantino 1920 (1)
just below top shoulder
• Constantino 1924 (1)
just below top shoulder, lightly scuffed label
• Dow 1960 (1) $150
very top shoulder
...
255 above 17 bottles per lot $1100-1700

Marc J and I agreed to a bid and split for this, but it went for more than our max, selling at $1600 x 1.22 = $1952. I guess some people valued those Constantinos more than we did.

[Jeff G.]

I'd go in on the 711 and 712 actually

for the 712, I'd probably be willing to take a 6 pack of each.

glenn

since i see you in march.

let me know what you're thinking.

acutally i see their low price of 3200 $ after 20% buyers + 10% tax means that if it went for low bid
the lot would cost 4225$ which rounds out to 192$/average per bottle

The fonseca 70 only sells for 110$/btl from acker's own inet auction.
which would put the F63 at a whopping~ 290$/btl

It would have to sell for below 2400$ to even make this lot worthwhile and i doubt the reserve is 800$ below low ask.

[Eric Menchen]

I'll leave the Graham's lots to others. Marc J and I are putting in a bid for lot #160. I'll come back and update if I can go in on #712 or others.

[Eric Menchen]

Acker results, with the 22% buyer's premium included:
160 Fonseca Vintage Port - Vintage 1994 - $1586
711 Dow’s Vintage Port - $2440
712 Fonseca Vintage Port - $3172
713 Graham’s Vintage Port - $3904
714 Graham’s Vintage Port - Vintage 1985 - $2074
715 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - Vintage 1955 - $2318
716 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - Vintage 1963 - $2196
717 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - Vintage 1970 - $1830
718 Taylor/Warre Fladgate Vintage Port - $1464

[Glenn E.]

Looks like a couple of good deals on the Taylors (lots 717 and 718), but otherwise nothing to write home about.