I have some old bottles of port which, frankly, are wasted on me (can’t drink anymore) and I’d like to sell them on. Given that they’re worth a fair bit, I’m not sure how to sell them – do I contact a specialist retailer, or auction them, or gumtree… ?

ask deadlydarcy. He’s a port-hoover. 🙄

I’m sure his nose will bring him here in good time.

ask deadlydarcy. He’s a port-hoover.

😛

However, I’m sorry I can’t help with selling them on…I’ll gladly come round for dinner and demolish them for you though. 🙂

Similarly I have 11 bottles of 1983 vintage. I’m quite keen to sell them but wouldn’t know where to start…

I see I have new friends to make. 🙂

If you can avoid them falling into the clutches of port fiends, there are 2 basic ways of selling via fine wine merchants:
1) Sell them through a broker for a % of the sale price (you get the money at a time when someone else wants to buy)
2) Sell them to a broker for a higher % of the value (you get a bit less money at the time when you want to sell)

Google fine wine merchants – they’re all pretty similar.

The bottle will normally need to be in a bonded warehouse and the warehouse will manage the transfer of ownership.

The other option is to talk to your local fine wine shop and see what they say.

Port-hoover?

Hangs around the docks?

What years do you have?

Will a broker / wine merchant buy single bottles – or does it have to be a whole case?

stuey – Member
Will a broker / wine merchant buy single bottles – or does it have to be a whole case?

Depends what it is!

I have:

1 x Graham’s Malvedos 1995
1 x Niepoort’s 1985
1 x Fonseca Guimaraens 1976

Some Googling reveals total value of around £250 – not sure I want to go through a broker for that amount. Might have a hunt locally for a wine merchant and see what they’d pay. Alternatively, I might just ebay them…

Read that as vintage porn, twice.

Plyphon,

If you can avoid them falling into the clutches of porn fiends, there are 2 basic ways of selling via fine smut merchants:
1) Sell them through a broker for a % of the sale price (you get the money at a time when someone else wants to buy)
2) Sell them to a broker for a higher % of the value (you get a bit less money at the time when you want to sell)

Google fine smut merchants – they’re all pretty similar.

The literature will normally need to be in a bonded warehouse and the warehouse will manage the transfer of ownership.

The other option is to talk to your local fine smut shop and see what they say.

HTH.

🙄

But where have they been kept?
Unless they have been cellared properly they have little value.
I know somebody who stored vintage port in their loft. It baked in 30°+ temps in summer then sat in freezing temps in winter. It’s now probably undrinkable.