For The Love Of Port

4 bottles of Sandeman Vau 2000 at $19.99/bottle

1 bottle of Taylor's 2003 LBV at $19.99

I had planned to open this last night, but I got distracted by a bottle of 1937 Noval Colheita. Amazing stuff!

-- Gary

Gary Richardson wrote:1 bottle of Taylor's 2003 LBV at $19.99

I had planned to open this last night, but I got distracted by a bottle of 1937 Noval Colheita. Amazing stuff!

I'm distracted just thinking about you being distracted by that! Yum!

Just in from GWW

3x Warre 77 @ $99
1x Taylor 92 @ $175
1x Taylor 94 @ $159
1x Fonseca 94 @ $175

A mixed case consisting of

• 1994 J.W. Burmester VP
• 1996 J.W. Burmester Quinta Nova Vin - Not sure what this is, but for $24 I figured I'd find out
• 2000 Quinta do Crasto VP
• 2003 Quinta do Crasto VP

I have had a working list of online merchants that I wanted to order from, and this was from the last I had on that list.

14 x 1937 Noval Colheita

I have now officially reached "out of control" levels of Port buying...

Is there a support group?

-- Gary

Gary Richardson wrote:14 x 1937 Noval Colheita
I have now officially reached "out of control" levels of Port buying...
Is there a support group?

Indeed, we'll all support you buying that Noval. Sounds great!

Gary Richardson wrote:14 x 1937 Noval Colheita

I have now officially reached "out of control" levels of Port buying...

Is there a support group?

-- Gary

Holy cow!!

Support group is right here and we say keep buying

Eric Menchen wrote:

Gary Richardson wrote:14 x 1937 Noval Colheita
I have now officially reached "out of control" levels of Port buying...
Is there a support group?

Indeed, we'll all support you buying that Noval. Sounds great!

YOU can support him buying it. I'LL support him DRINKING it!

Nice score, Gary!

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 Burgundy collection. When he asked which bottles I would like to taste, to assess the integrity of his collection, he assumed that I would only want to try several of his old burgs. But having read some notes on this board about how the 80s VPs were performing, I talked him into opening an 80 Graham. I was literally blown away with the intensity and complexity of fruit in this wine, the entire vintage of which I had ignored from release to this point. I bought all of his 1980s, which included 6 Grahams, 7 Taylor Fladgate, and 9 Fonseca. Average price was $60 a bottle. Would never have looked twice at them in his cellar if it wasn't for the enthusiasm on this board.

3x Ferriera 20 yr tawny @$51 (from a restaurant, take out price)

John Woodward wrote: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 Burgundy collection. When he asked which bottles I would like to taste, to assess the integrity of his collection, he assumed that I would only want to try several of his old burgs. But having read some notes on this board about how the 80s VPs were performing, I talked him into opening an 80 Graham. I was literally blown away with the intensity and complexity of fruit in this wine, the entire vintage of which I had ignored from release to this point. I bought all of his 1980s, which included 6 Grahams, 7 Taylor Fladgate, and 9 Fonseca. Average price was $60 a bottle. Would never have looked twice at them in his cellar if it wasn't for the enthusiasm on this board.

John,
Congrats on your first post Wow, some good bottles you found and sounds like you scored a good price on them. The Graham's is a very nice bottle! My only recommendation would be to drink the Fonseca's first. Sadly 1980 was a year not particularly kind to Fonseca. No matter what you open please post your tasting note, or simple impression, of them in the Tasting Note section of the forum when you do.

I look forward to your involvement here at and hope you visit and chime in often.

14 x 1937 Noval Colheita

I have now officially reached "out of control" levels of Port buying...

Is there a support group?

Resistence is futile.

2x 1999 Warre's LBV Bottle Matured @ $28 (bottled 2003, unfiltered and unfined)

1x 2003 Graham's LBV @ $25 (filtered, bottled 2008)

My new babies:

6x Capela de Quinta do Vesuvio 2007

Next week:

1x Serafim Cabral Vintage 1871
1x Blackburne Vintage 1908
1x Fearon Block Vintage 1935

And probably some 1950's Sandeman's.Two weeks ago, I've met the most incredible Port collector, he's now 90 years old and wants to share the passion with somebody that will appreciate his treasure - these old classics for some 2007s and 2005s that I have in my own cellar

Happy holidays!

John,

Welcome to FTLOP, it is great to have you join us and be a part of the fun loving Port fans that post or lurk here (we prefer those that post but lurkers are welcome too!).

I hope we get to meet one of these days. I'll be returning to your area in early February and will see if I get a free night to do some Port fun. In the mean time you should hook up with Eric Menchen who is another 'er as he is from CO too.

Your Port purchases from 1980 sound great (although Andy and I agree on the Fonseca) and I am sure you'll enjoy your great bottles. Would love to hear about the old Burgs too, but you can recount that story whilst we share some fine old bottles of Port.

Please do share your impressions on the bottles you open!

Best regards and again, !

4 x 2004 Quinta do Crasto VP at 49.99

From WTSO, which I learned of from Glenn on a post here.

Only 1 btl of 85 Smith Woodhouse, it was good enough to buy more... but I got crazy and bought Mission H-B 2005 and a magnum of Leoville Poyferré 2005

2 x Quinta do Noval VP 2007 @ 134.99 each CAD
3 x Kopke Colheita 1997 (375ml) @ 28.97
2 x Graham's VP 1997 @ 105.99
1 x Fonseca LBV 2003 (375ml) @ 15.19
2 x Taylor White Port @ 22.61

Should last me the week or so

4 x 1999 Warre's LBV bottle matured @ $27.99/bottle

1 x Fonseca's Bin 27 @ $19.99/bottle

1 x Graham's Six Grapes @ $23.99/bottle