For The Love Of Port

6 x 1994 Quinta do Vesuvio
12 x 1985 Fonseca

1 Dows 2003
1 Grahams 20 year old tawney
1 Warres Quinta Cavadinha 1996
1 Cockburns 2008 Lbv

The Cockburn lbv is opened at the moment.

12 x 1991 Croft Vintage Port

12x 1994 Fonseca
12x 1997 Fonseca

The last 10 days have been very busy.I got a relatively late start since I have only taken an interest in Port the last 2yrs.
1997 Dow Vintage 2
2000 warres vintage 2
2003 Fonseca Vintage 2
2003 Taylor Vintage 2
1970 Taylor Vintage 1
1997 Fonseca Vintage 1
Quinta do Vesuvio 1997 2
1985 Gould Campbell 2

Jeff Terk

Jeff Terk wrote:The last 10 days have been very busy.I got a relatively late start since I have only taken an interest in Port the last 2yrs.
1997 Dow Vintagec2
2000 warres vintage 2
2003 Fonseca Vintage 2
2003 Taylor Vintage 2
1970 Taylor Vintage 1
1997 Fonseca Vintage 1
Quinta do Vesuvio 1997 2
1985 Gould Campbell 2

Jeff Terk

to the Forum and a nice line up of Ports!

I bought another 1957 Niepoort and a 1912 Niepoort

R Bull wrote:I bought another 1957 Niepoort and a 1912 Niepoort

nice

Up in Auckland recently and picked up a bottle of the 2012 Quinta do Vesuvio VP

2x 1974 Kopke Colheita (bottled 2004)
1x 1977 Kopke Vintage
1x 1989 Borges & Irmao Vintage

Both were 2-bottle lots at auction this weekend.

I know it is not realy fair, as being a port shop. But I wanted to share this: Taylor's 1863 Single Harvest Port

Pure decadence and extravaganza...

A beautiful bottle.

It is beautiful, however I do wonder why the box inside a box.


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Because the box is so nice you need a box to protect it!

This thread has been real quiet since the last FTLOP Buying Op......I think we all spent our budgets!!

Took a day trip to Glasgow yesterday - 748 miles driving, round trip, including one tyre lost to a blow-out on the trans-pennine A66

All in pursuit of a Graham's 1912 and a Fonseca 1927..

The Graham was an old Graham VP bottle, but possibly not old enough. There was some worm damage to the cork and the bottle grime extended seemlessly behind the label which was not well attached, it was also billed by the auctioneer as 'sold as seen' - I decided my pockets were not very deep for this one, and let it go.

The F27 had a base of neck level and a sound foil capsule. This is only the second time in the last ten years that I've seen this wine come to auction and was pleased to secure it at a fair price.

But there were a few strange bottles in the catalogue that I took time to look at

Billed as 'Portuguese wine' 1815 Vinho Velha by Antonio Taveira of V.N. de Gaia. Two bottles that had old Portuguese labels and decent levels, and clearly port - probably bottled around a century after vintage.

Well, a Waterloo vintage port in the bicentennial year, this was going to fly high - Not. I picked up the pair for less than I paid for the F27

A minute later three more bottles with Taveira foils and slip labels, also billed as wine, but clearly port and billed as vintage unknown - however a careful look at the slip labels showed the faded but unmistakable date of 1847 - another good result.

So a good day's work - but who was Antonio Taveira??

Just back from a little holiday in the north of Portugal, where a few small shops had, amongst the fruit and veg, some bottles of Port, amongst them...
1998 Graham Porto Vintage Malvedos
2000 Niepoort Porto Vintage * 2
2003 Warre Porto Bottle Matured Late Bottled Vintage
1997 Quinta de la Rosa Porto Vintage
2000 Poças Porto Vintage (This shop looked for all the world like your basic small supermarket, but in the back they had a complete set of Messias, in wooden boxes, from 1960 onwards)
1991 Caves Messias Porto Vintage
1997 Caves Messias Porto Vintage Quinta do Cachão (This little old lady's shop in Esposende had some pretty special bottles, but, given that there was a Noval 2000 in the window with all the red sunburned from the label, I decided to be cautious)

I'd intended to stop in at Messias in Mealhada as I went past, but it was a holiday on the way up, and lunchtime on the way back. Instead I visited Quinta das Bágeiras where we had a tour of the cellar, chatted with Mário Sérgio, the owner and enólogo, and scored several cases of their (in my opinion, most excellent) wines.

Roger L. wrote:Just back from a little holiday in the north of Portugal, where a few small shops had, amongst the fruit and veg, some bottles of Port, amongst them...
1998 Graham Porto Vintage Malvedos
2000 Niepoort Porto Vintage * 2
2003 Warre Porto Bottle Matured Late Bottled Vintage
1997 Quinta de la Rosa Porto Vintage
2000 Poças Porto Vintage (This shop looked for all the world like your basic small supermarket, but in the back they had a complete set of Messias, in wooden boxes, from 1960 onwards)
1991 Caves Messias Porto Vintage
1997 Caves Messias Porto Vintage Quinta do Cachão (This little old lady's shop in Esposende had some pretty special bottles, but, given that there was a Noval 2000 in the window with all the red sunburned from the label, I decided to be cautious)

I'd intended to stop in at Messias in Mealhada as I went past, but it was a holiday on the way up, and lunchtime on the way back. Instead I visited Quinta das Bágeiras where we had a tour of the cellar, chatted with Mário Sérgio, the owner and enólogo, and scored several cases of their (in my opinion, most excellent) wines.

Very cool.
I see a lot of Messias in stores when I've been in Portugal, and almost none anywhere else. I'm curious if Portugal is their largest market for the Special Category Ports or if not what country is.

Andy Velebil wrote:Very cool.
I see a lot of Messias in stores when I've been in Portugal, and almost none anywhere else. I'm curious if Portugal is their largest market for the Special Category Ports or if not what country is.

Perhaps we like to keep the really good stuff for ourselves?

Or perhaps it's something to do with it being founded (1926), and still owned by, a Portuguese family?
That said, their web site (which seems only to be in Portuguese) says they already export 65% of their production to "the 5 continents". Hopefully that's mainly the Dão and Vinho Verde wines.

Roger L. wrote:

Andy Velebil wrote:Very cool.
I see a lot of Messias in stores when I've been in Portugal, and almost none anywhere else. I'm curious if Portugal is their largest market for the Special Category Ports or if not what country is.

Perhaps we like to keep the really good stuff for ourselves?

Or perhaps it's something to do with it being founded (1926), and still owned by, a Portuguese family?
That said, their web site (which seems only to be in Portuguese) says they already export 65% of their production to "the 5 continents". Hopefully that's mainly the Dão and Vinho Verde wines.

IIRC, TFP owns a good part of the company now.