For The Love Of Port

Cellartracker says the average vintage is 1986.4. But that's only if you count 3 bottles of 1951 Offley Forrester Colheita.

The VP only: average age is 14.95975 and a total of 7061 years.
Incl. tawnies the age is 15,28211 and a total of 7259.

Hey Tom want to swap cellars ?????

Niels

Stroejer wrote:The VP only: average age is 14.95975 and a total of 7061 years. ... Hey Tom want to swap cellars ?????

I'll swap with that.

You've never seen Tom's cellar. Ever watch The Munster's?

Glenn E. wrote:Coincidentally, 1985 also happens to be the year from which I have the most bottles (41), followed by 2003 (36) and 1964 (29).

If those 1964s were all vintage port, you would probably have more than anyone else in the world!

The average age of my bottles of port (mostly vintage, but a tiny handful of LBVs) is 29.15 years.

Al B. wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:Coincidentally, 1985 also happens to be the year from which I have the most bottles (41), followed by 2003 (36) and 1964 (29).

If those 1964s were all vintage port, you would probably have more than anyone else in the world!

Sadly, they are not. I only have 4 bottles of VP from 1964 - one each of Fonseca Guimaraens, Graham's Malvedos, Noval Nacional, and Taylor's Vargellas. The other 25 bottles are all Colheitas; 13 Noval, 5 Dow, 5 Krohn White, and 2 Porto Rocha. Some day I hope to acquire a Niepoort Garrafeira.

The average age of the VP in my cellar is just over 14 years.

Warning: slight thread drift. I do a little better with madeira; average age is 57.6 years for vintage (frasqueira) and colheita.

Now at 14.997 years. I've added quite a few bottles since my first post on this thread, but obviously a mix of young and old so the average hasn't moved much. It will probably go a little younger before the year is out when I purchase all the 2007 I plan on buying.