The guy who teaches the wine class I go to, the same teacher who organizes the annual trips to France? Yeah, that guy… He used to be the top rated Sommelier in the UK. He won an award and everything. He used to own a restaurant in town called Tannin Level, but sold it years ago. He now works part time assessing old wine found in estates that are to go up for auction. And teaches a bunch of yay-hoos about wine.
Last Spring he alerted the wine class to a huge lot of 1963 Warre Port found in an old manor house. Apparently 1963 was one of the best years ever for port and Warre was one of the best makers of it that particular year.
The story goes that a barrel of the stuff had been shipped up to Liverpool, where a nearby upper-crust family had it brought to their house and bottled it on site in the cellar of their manor house… where it sat until the house and all of its contents were put up for auction.
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| Twelve rather dusty bottles |
Peter, my wine teacher, was called in to determine what all the wines in the cellar were. Peter had to crack open some of the bottles to determine if it was any good. The cream of the crop were close to 100 bottles of this 1963 Warre Port. He shared the remained of his bottle of Warre port with the class and let us know the 100 bottles would be auctioned in several lots in about a months time.
Bill and I got a group of like-minded wine drinkers together and ended up 'winning' a lot of 12 bottles! I put winning in quotes as we won the right to spend a lot of money on 12 bottle of wine.
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| Bottle gross, stuff inside very good! |
However, we've since cracked open one of the bottles, and it was, indeed, delicious!
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