Following our piece yesterday commenting on Jamie Goode’s blog on the assessment of ‘super-expensive’ wines, today there are a couple of timely blogs that we’d like to point you to on MyWineDaily on a related subject. A couple of the large Port houses have recently released extremely old wines, both nineteenth century, in very high quality, symbolic bespoke packaging and of course, limited quantities.
Last month Taylor’s announced the arrival of their 1863 single harvest tawny (‘Vintage Port’ is bottled after a few years and matures in the bottle) at £3,000 a time, presented in crystal decanters. This is from two casks of wine acquired as part of a company purchased last year, as explained by Victoria Moore at The Telegraph. Meanwhile as reported by Amy Wislocki in Decanter today, at Christie’s this week, Paul Symington was launching Graham’s Ne Oublie, to be bottled from one of three casks of wine made in 1882, at the eye-watering price of £4,510. Go to the blogs for the ins and outs of the different names, packaging – and tasting notes!
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