For The Love Of Port

What is/are yours?

- Pather
- 1789 T Barbeito
- 1792 Solera Blandys
- Reserva T H&H

Barry, and yours?

I drank all mine... I have some "premium quality" madeira from the 1940's, but that's about it for madeira worth talking about. Wish I had more to boast.

1795 Barbieto Terrantez
1810 Borges Sercial
1842 Borges Terrantez
1862 Borges Terrantez

Just take the special ones, like Terrantez...........

1720 Pather Borges
1780 Boal Borges
1795 Terrantez Barbeito ( 12 )
1795 Terrantez CVM ( 3 )
1802 Terrantez Oscar ( still 3 )
1802 Boal Barbeito
1806 Rainwater Brig Twins
1832 Terrantez Oscar
1834 Terrantez Barbeito
1846 Terrantez Borges
1862 Terrantez Borges

Reidar Andersen wrote:Just take the special ones, like Terrantez...........

1720 Pather Borges
1780 Boal Borges
1795 Terrantez Barbeito ( 12 )
1795 Terrantez CVM ( 3 )
1802 Terrantez Oscar ( still 3 )
1802 Boal Barbeito
1806 Rainwater Brig Twins
1832 Terrantez Oscar
1834 Terrantez Barbeito
1846 Terrantez Borges
1862 Terrantez Borges

Reidar,

actually I was thinking if I should post that many bottles, but now what you are doing forces me to expand my core-pieces, too .

- Pather
- 1730 T Borges
- 1760 T Borges
- 1780 B Borges
- 1789 T Barbeito
- 1792 Blandy Solera
- 1795 T Barbeito
- 1795 T CVM
- 1805 V Blandy
- 1815 B Blandy Solera
- 1834 M Barbeito
- 1840 B Borges
- 1846 T Borges
- 1875 Bastardo Cossart
- NV H&H Reserva: T, M, B
- Serrado: 1827 B, 1830 M

average vintage of all Madeiras that are not NV: 1892, but I have to confess that I bought 30 bottles of newer Vintage Madeiras recently (1950+).

1715 JCA
1720 Pather
1740 JCA

1950 Barbeito FV

I'm just a public school teacher...

He, he, Andreas .. Will not ad more,, though we agree on Serrado 1827 and 1830 , I have a few...

But I have the old Heavenly Quartet.... On the other end I have two bottles of Cossart Gordon Bastardo 1969. I have not seen those anyplace after I got it in Sweden of all places...

1884 Blandy’s Sercial BG (Baltazar Gonsalves)

Anyone know how many 1720 Pathers were bottled? Thought it was supposed to be "rare"

Couldn't have been too many. I believe all the grandkids got 45-50 bottles total of all the really old Borges wines including the Pather, the 1760 Terrantez, 1780 Boal, and the 1810 Sercial. I think the majority of the wines on the market came from one of the grandsons.

Oh, also the 1800 Verdelho, so I'm guessing 40-60 bottles total for each wine. There were 6 grandkids.

I managed to snag at auction a year ago some 1789 Barbeito Terantez and 1799 Barbeito Boal. Got the bottles delivered a month ago and they just looked off. I had my girlfriend walk into my cellar and look at the rows of Madeiras and ask her to find the odd man out among them just to see if I was delusional. She immediately pointed to these. With Roy's assistance, I reached out to Mr. Freitas at Barbeito and sent him photos of the bottles. Shortly thereafter, he sent me a detailed email confirming the authenticity of the bottles. Phewww. I am very grateful to both of these gentlemen and look forward to finding the occasion to open one of these treasures.

For me it's an 1862 D'Oliveiras Sercial.