For The Love Of Port

Have you ever found a "lost bottle" of Port in your cellar. One you forgot all about for many years until one day you're cleaning the cellar or looking for something else and you stumble upon it.

I wish Andy. Usually the other way around. Going in looking for a bottle it turns out I already finished.

Dave Johnson wrote:I wish Andy. Usually the other way around. Going in looking for a bottle it turns out I already finished.

Me too.

There is a certain pleasure associated with forgetting and then re-discovering bottles, which I still indulge with table wines, especially those that cost me very little.

But for port, I like to maintain a complete record - date of purchase; source; cost; condition - and a record of notes made when previous bottles were consumed from the same case.

Tom

I tend to have the opposite experience. I remember that I have a rare gem in the cellar and then when I go to find it I realise that I have already popped it at some time in the past :? :help:

Derek T. wrote:I tend to have the opposite experience. I remember that I have a rare gem in the cellar and then when I go to find it I realise that I have already popped it at some time in the past :? :help:

That seems to be my problem too.

Oh I did better than a lost bottle. I was going through my cellar and doing a complete inventory and ran across a complete case of 1977 Warre's! I thought I had drank it all long ago but I must have bought 2 cases. I opened one and it was the best showing yet of this Port! Certainly it's ready to drink.
-Dave-

A CASE! Ok that takes the cake Dave. I can see a bottle or two, but how do you forget about a case

Wow! Lucky you!

I normally write all I buy in my homemade database sofware. But in the last 2 month I did nothing and since I moved house, it is kind of very unorganised in my 2 house cellars. I was thinking about that, that one day I'll discover one bottle that would fit the perfect occasion and that I had forgot about. Though excited about the idea, for insurance purpose, I think I'll might to redo my inventory again...

I know I will have some gems. I like to fill any empty space in OWC's with whatever will fit of similar era. The 94's are on the bottom of pile, so who knows what is in there?

The other day I found a bottle of Croft '63 that I didn't know I had. Somehow I forgot that I had purchased it and I really hadn't taken an inventory lately so I guess that it just got overlooked.

Marc

Andy Velebil wrote:A CASE! Ok that takes the cake Dave. I can see a bottle or two, but how do you forget about a case

Yeah.. I don't know. I bought a lot of cases of that wine and sold many of them and drank through one. But then never saw another one -- it's in my off-site locker. I was digging through do inventory and pulled out every case... and there it was! I was shocked. I guess I needed an inventory!!
-Dave-