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post #16 of 23
12/20/08 at 1:10pm
20 year tawny at my local (NY) liquor store is around $50. Ready to drink and it definitely has character. It tastes "aged" in a good way.

I have little experiece with LBV so I can't say which is better, or even which I prefer.
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post #17 of 23
12/20/08 at 2:45pm
I started drinking cheap ruby ports years ago, then moved to tawny (not aged) and muscat. A couple of years ago I decided to start buying some vintage port. Didn't know anything about them, but went to the store looking for something in the $80-$100 range to try. Found a bottle marked $85 and decided to give it a try. At the counter the guy scanned it in and it rang up at about $600 or so. He saw the marked price and overrode it, giving me the price on the bottle (also marked on the shelf at the same price). I took it home and put it in my wine closet figuring I'd give it a try sometime soon. A few months ago, I decided to put all my wine on cellartracker. When I entered the bottle of port, it assigns it a value of $621. So I go looking around on the web and find out that this is a 2000 Quinta do Noval Nacional and goes on some websites for like $700-$1000 a bottle. From the reading I've done on it, I figure it should be ready to drink about the time my grandkids graduate from college (my boys are still teenagers). It now safely resides in my new wine chiller. Bad news is that I still need a bottle of vintage I can drink. So I picked up a couple of other bottles this week. I have tried a few LBV's. Have liked them, but don't know too much about them either.
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post #18 of 23
12/20/08 at 2:47pm
Another option is a colheita port, which is a vintage dated tawny that is ready to drink. The 94 smith woodhouse colheita at $39 http://www.winex.com/wine-20326-.aspx is in your price range. As a port lover, I'd personally prefer to receive this rather than the generic 10,20, etc. year tawnys.
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post #19 of 23
12/20/08 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
A couple of years ago I decided to start buying some vintage port. Didn't know anything about them, but went to the store looking for something in the $80-$100 range to try. Found a bottle marked $85 and decided to give it a try. At the counter the guy scanned it in and it rang up at about $600 or so. He saw the marked price and overrode it, giving me the price on the bottle (also marked on the shelf at the same price). I took it home and put it in my wine closet figuring I'd give it a try sometime soon. A few months ago, I decided to put all my wine on cellartracker. When I entered the bottle of port, it assigns it a value of $621. So I go looking around on the web and find out that this is a 2000 Quinta do Noval Nacional and goes on some websites for like $700-$1000 a bottle. From the reading I've done on it, I figure it should be ready to drink about the time my grandkids graduate from college (my boys are still teenagers). It now safely resides in my new wine chiller.

WOW. This would go into the "you win some" column....I guess!
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post #20 of 23
12/20/08 at 3:08pm
Nice score MfP. That is one of the best of the best! And isn't cellartracker great? I just logged my last case of wine in for the year this morning, my Peay order
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post #21 of 23
12/20/08 at 3:38pm
+1 for the LBV recommendations, especially for somebody who is new to port.

White port is also another option for a change of pace.
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post #22 of 23
12/20/08 at 3:56pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
I started drinking cheap ruby ports years ago, then moved to tawny (not aged) and muscat. A couple of years ago I decided to start buying some vintage port. Didn't know anything about them, but went to the store looking for something in the $80-$100 range to try. Found a bottle marked $85 and decided to give it a try. At the counter the guy scanned it in and it rang up at about $600 or so. He saw the marked price and overrode it, giving me the price on the bottle (also marked on the shelf at the same price). I took it home and put it in my wine closet figuring I'd give it a try sometime soon. A few months ago, I decided to put all my wine on cellartracker. When I entered the bottle of port, it assigns it a value of $621. So I go looking around on the web and find out that this is a 2000 Quinta do Noval Nacional and goes on some websites for like $700-$1000 a bottle. From the reading I've done on it, I figure it should be ready to drink about the time my grandkids graduate from college (my boys are still teenagers). It now safely resides in my new wine chiller. Bad news is that I still need a bottle of vintage I can drink. So I picked up a couple of other bottles this week. I have tried a few LBV's. Have liked them, but don't know too much about them either.
Quinta? Quinta!? And for $85 bucks? Criminey. Noval is my favorite house. What else did you pick up? ~ H
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post #23 of 23
12/20/08 at 5:52pm
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Quinta? Quinta!? And for $85 bucks? Criminey. Noval is my favorite house. What else did you pick up? ~ H
I think that $85 was their price for the regular 2000 Quinta do Noval, but not the Nacional. Since then I've picked up a couple of other vintage Novals (not Nacional) that I probably overpaid for a bit. I got a 2004 for about $50 and a 1997 Silval (375ml) for about $100. All this talk of port got me by the liquor store today to try out a couple of 20 year tawnies. Picked up a Sandeman's and a Warre's to try (both about $50). Drinking a bit of the Sandeman's at this very moment. Quite nice. Not as cloying and syrupy as some other tawnies I've tried.
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