For The Love Of Port

2 x 1967 Butler, Nephew & Co. VP

5x Warre 350th anniversary vinhas velhas vintage 2020

That Warre's is wonderful, try one early on and leave the other four to try once a decade from there on. :)

Ignore this advice completely, if you are 50 or above. :)

But to better appreciate these 2020 VP's, take a few days tasting one while it is young and you will love to gauge its evolution in the future.

12x2011 Taylor Vinha Velha

Not tried, but I just love the vintage. I truly suspect these will drink beautifully now and any year they are opened.

Randy Katz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:10 pm 12x2011 Taylor Vinha Velha

Not tried, but I just love the vintage. I truly suspect these will drink beautifully now and any year they are opened.

Wo! Great buy! Where did you buy them?
I had 4 in 2015 and one of the 4 was drunk. I plan to drink the next one in 5 or 10 years. Give news if you drink one.

Roy Hersh wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:17 am That Warre's is wonderful, try one early on and leave the other four to try once a decade from there on. :)

Ignore this advice completely, if you are 50 or above. :)

But to better appreciate these 2020 VP's, take a few days tasting one while it is young and you will love to gauge its evolution in the future.

Great advice, I'll try one and drink the other ones twice a decade from there on. That means I'll have the last one at age 89! Roy, you are invited to share them all with Marguérite and me in the years to come!

Kind regards, Alle

LOUISSS J wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:15 am

Randy Katz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:10 pm 12x2011 Taylor Vinha Velha

Not tried, but I just love the vintage. I truly suspect these will drink beautifully now and any year they are opened.

Wo! Great buy! Where did you buy them?
I had 4 in 2015 and one of the 4 was drunk. I plan to drink the next one in 5 or 10 years. Give news if you drink one.

Acker. My least favorite auction site, but sometimes the price is still worth all of the markups they add on.

Two bottles of Niepoort 20 Year Tawny

- 1937 Sousa Guedes Colheita (2x)

Gerwin de Graaf wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:33 am - 1937 Sousa Guedes Colheita (2x)

Catawiki, bottled in 1973?

2 x Quinta da Devesa 10 year old Tawny (23 euro per bottle)
1 x Quinta da Devesa Vintage 2018 (42 euro per bottle)

A.S. Demka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:45 pm
Catawiki, bottled in 1973?

As a matter of fact, indeed , bottles were deliverd today, very nice, in their original wooden 2-bottle case and their 2 orignal cardboard boxes

Gerwin de Graaf wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:57 am

A.S. Demka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:45 pm
Catawiki, bottled in 1973?

As a matter of fact, indeed , bottles were deliverd today, very nice, in their original wooden 2-bottle case and their 2 orignal cardboard boxes

Enjoy !

Niepoort Garrafeira 1948, according to a small addditional label on the back originally imported by A. Hoogendijk Wine Import in Vlaardingen (near Rotterdam).

The Hoogendijk company started around 1800 as herring fishermen and merchant shippers. As Portugal/Porto was its main destination, the company started trading Portuguese wines as well. The fishing/shipping and wine trading activities were split in 1916. Hoogendijk Wine Import ceased to exist in 1982 (Google).
Sounds like Theodor Wiese and Dankert Krohn, who also started as fish traders (cod) to the Portuguese market!

No purchases since Feb 2, is Prohibition back again in the USA?

Not in The Netherlands .
Today I have purchased:
- 1x Kopke White Colheita 2003 (0,75l, bottled in 2023)
- 2x Kopke White 20yo (0,375l, bottled in 2023).

A small lot won at Acker's weekly auction this past weekend:

1983 Dow VP
1987 Ferreira VP
1991 Dow LBV

I was primarily after the Ferreira, but the others are nice cellar defenders. All in was $100 and since they're about a half hour from where I live now in PA (they're in Delaware), I can pick up and not have to pay for shipping.

Kopke São Luiz VP '21 @ €41.23/bottle

Paul C. Metman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:28 am Kopke São Luiz VP '21 @ €41.23/bottle

Friendly jest

OWC6 of 2021 Kopke São Luiz VP @ €40.25/bottle
OWC6 of 2021 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim VP @ €36.89/bottle

Added to the cellar as it is my daughters birth year. Joins the OWC6 of 2021 Quinta da Romaneira VP's already purchased.

2 x Dow's Quinta do Bomfim vintage 2013 (28€)
1 x Dow's 20 year old tawny (39€)
1 x Cockburn's 20 year old Tawny (37€)

Hutcheson 1937 Old Tawny Port, bottled in 1971
Real Companhia Velha 1944 Port, bottled in 1973