For The Love Of Port

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.

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

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 wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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