Oh Lord!
As a fellow Port-head, that is a sad story. '77 is the one for me, though I have a '70 tucked away (my birth year). I tracked down a '44 for my dad, and he had the indecency to drink it on his 65th, whilst I was out of the country!
(Mousy Tongue ...Generally bemused by life..., Sat 9 May 2009, 2:08, 1 reply)

We were mostly drinking '77 that night...
.. and it was great. It was a 50th anniversary, so we had a little of the '54 which was good, but not as good as it had been 10 years earlier at the 40th dinner. 40 years seems to be long enough.

A random port story - my wife is not usually keen on port, but went to a college reunion dinner and said to me the following morning that the port the previous night was "quite nice really". Turns out to have been Fonseca '63! Quite nice? No shit.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Mon 11 May 2009, 9:42, closed)