Port-any experts of quality and age?

[IanPalmer]

Good morning all- long time lurker of PH in general and this forum in particular here, but this is my first post.

I bid for this bottle of port in a charity auction about 9 years ago- it had some anecdotal provenance of being pre WW2 and survived the blitz. I haven’t had much success in tracing it and seeing if it’s any good. Are there any experts/ PH’ers in the know on here that could shed some light?

Thanks in advance for any advice and assistance!

[Phud]

ruby is a young port, meant to be drunk quite soon, it is not, sorry to say a vintage port, they will all have their year on the bottle.

Doubt there will be any improvement with age, you might find somewhere on the reverse and an marker.

Honest house and should be ok to drink.

[IanPalmer]

Brilliant- thank you. I’ll steam in.

[dapprman]

On the upside of not being a Vintage or Single di Quinta is that Ruby port (as a label, not as a type - strictly speaking Vintage, SdQ, and LBV are all rubies, as opposed to tawnies) is filtered before bottling and so is not active - meaning it should not go off, unlike Vintage and Single Di Quinta (hate to think how many bottles myself and a friend have had to ditch 15 years past our big port buying days - each was opened to drink and on sampling was ditched)