Graham--Vintage 1963 English-bottled. Damaged wax capsules. No labels. Levels base of neck or better Parcel: lots 177 to 179 Three dozen idyllic notes since 1965, no matter where or by whom bottled. For example Danish-bottled and by Grants of St. Jamess both similarly described (in 1975 and 1976) as huge, powerful and spirity. Amongst the most recent a superb Corney & Barrow bottling, even with the bottling date on the cork, and an excellent Oporto-bottled wine: medium-deep, slightly plummy, maturing nicely; sweet, rich, compact, slightly chocolaty bouquet; very sweet compared to the 60 and 66, fairly full-bodied, chunky fruit, rich yet lissom, great power and penetration. Still with great potential for further development. Eight notes in the early to mid- 1990s. Lovely bottles at the Wine Departments Christmas dinners in the Boardroom at Christies in 1982 and 1993 (we were always a close knit family. I dont think any other department got together like this). Drinking perfectly at the end of a Mouton-Rothschild dinner at Brookss the following spring and one of my highest rated ports at Symington tastings, very powerful in 1994, and in 1995 a magnum, Oporto-bottled, which had, I thought, lost quite a bit of colour, delicious but fading. M.B. See also lot 193