Price of Stanton Killeen Vintage Port 1983

[Jafana]

Hi guys,
I'm a little new to this board, but I was wondering if anyone could help me out.
My lovely old dad has given me my 21st birthday present of 8 bottles of Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 1983 (Apparently more wonderful things than me were made in that year!)
What I was wondering was how I would go about getting a price for a bottle of such wonderful stuff. If anyone has any info, it would be much appreciated! Thanks.

[Drew]

Welcome, Jafana. I can't find anything on price for your gift for the '83 vintage port.
Try emailing the winery at: sk_wines@netc.net.au. They don't have a web site that I can locate.

Stanton & Killeen
Stanton &Killeen Wines is a small family owned and operateed winery at Rutherglen in North East Victoria - Australia. Since 1875, six generations of winemakers have produced full bodied dry red, premium fortifieds and more recently white as one of wines, establishing Stanton & Killeen as one of Australia's premier vineyards.


Drew

[Kcwhippet]

Haven't been able to find a price on your 1983 bottles, but the current vintage is showing at about AU$37. If yours have been in good storage since purchased and are drinking well, they are certainly worth more. Inerestingly, they're saying that this port is made from the Durif grape and the quote is that it's a grape "which is grown virtually nowhere else in the world."

[Innkeeper]

"Which is grown virtually nowhere else in the world"! http://www.psiloveyou.org

[Thomas]

Depends on your definition of what "virtually" virtually is...

[winoweenie]

As I've posted many times there are some terrific Duriffs' made in Calif.WW

[Tastevin]

Hello Ww.
Are all the Durif wines labelled as such now, or are some of them still labelled as Petite Sirah (or some similar spelling)?
T.

[Tastevin]

Hello Jafana.
Suggest you ask Christies Auction House. There's one in South Yarra.
T

[Innkeeper]

Most in the U.S. label them petite sirah. I know of at least one Australian producer who labels local market bottles as durif, and export bottles as petite sirah.

[Kcwhippet]

I met Sergio Traverso about 18 or 19 years ago. He was, at that time, the winemaker for Concannon Vineyards in Livermore and I lived down the street from the winery, so I visited them, and their neighbors, fairly often. Back then, they made a wonderful Petite Sirah - it probably still is but I haven't had it in a few years. Anyway, He once told me that they were pretty sure that about 80% to 90% of what they called Petite Sirah was Duriff, and the rest was probably Peloursin. Whatever the grapes, I liked the wine a lot.

[Innkeeper]

KC, the Blue Tooth Tour will be in Boston on March 22. The folks from Concannon are on it.