For The Love Of Port

David Spriggs wrote:
John, do you know if your 1963 Fonseca was Oporto or English bottled?
-Dave-

Oporto, with the typical petrified wax capsule...

I don’t have many 63 VPs left anymore. I had purchased most of them in the late 70s from Skinflints in Atlanta, where I would participate with a couple of other Burg fanatics in shipping a palate of old Maison Leroy wines from Burgundy. I usually drank the VPs mostly at special dinners, rarely if it...

As a new member, I have been lurking, and becoming progressively more inspired by Roy, Andy, and members of this board to explore more recent vintages of VP. I was offered this week a small number of 1980 VPs which had been cellared since release, when I arrived at his cellar to purchase his Burgund...