james suckling uncorked

Unconventional Openings

Posted: Jan 26, 2009 11:28am ET

I broke the neck of a bottle of 1960 Croft this weekend before leaving for a dinner with friends in Tuscany. I was in a rush and I ran down to the cellar and grabbed a dark bottle of Vintage Port. It was leaking a little and it had a less than perfect level in the bottle—upper shoulder, or just below where the neck and the shoulder of the bottle meet.

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