On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:39:54 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 20/03/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Arthur wrote:
>
>>>> Never even heard of vintage port, have you?
>>>
>>> Actually there is vintage port and it can be quite pricy,
>>
>> Um, duh. That was his point. That pricy vintage port often requires
>> decanting due to sediment, which rather argues against the claim that
>> wines worth more than $2/liter don't need decanting.
>
>It was Sheldon. Don't expect it to make sense.
>
>A few years ago my wife bought me a bottle of vintage port. It was
>wonderful stuff. I confess to being naive about vintage port. I had no
>idea there would be so much dregs in the bottom of the bottle. I would
>estimate that 10-15% of the volume of the bottle was dregs. Rude surprise.

Liar.