6 bottles per lot
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Fonseca--Vintage 1963
Believed English-bottled. Lightly bin-soiled labels. Levels into neck
Vintage note: A highly important vintage. Twenty-five shippers. Fairly favourable, though a drought lasted from Whitsun through the summer months until September. There was a good harvest towards the end of that month. A large quantity of vintage port made, probably the biggest in volume since 1927, and some very beautiful wines. The top: Dow, Warre, Fonseca, Graham and Taylor Most are fully mature now and many are losing colour and living on their reputation.
Tasting note: From start (June 1965) to finish a consistently beautiful wine. One of the top '63s and one of the best-ever Fonsecas. Half a dozen notes in the 1990s, but in the mid-decade losing colour though still lovely, and a fragant, elegant Oporto-bottling in 1998 surviving 'Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut Praline' (oh dear! Why do these American gourmets do this?). Most recently, medium-deep, richly coloured; cinnamon and cress fragrance; still sweet, fairly assertive, tall, shapely, lissom. Last tasted Dec 1998 ***** Perfect now-2015 Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
6 bottles per lot
Believed English-bottled. Lightly bin-soiled labels. Levels into neck
Vintage note: A highly important vintage. Twenty-five shippers. Fairly favourable, though a drought lasted from Whitsun through the summer months until September. There was a good harvest towards the end of that month. A large quantity of vintage port made, probably the biggest in volume since 1927, and some very beautiful wines. The top: Dow, Warre, Fonseca, Graham and Taylor Most are fully mature now and many are losing colour and living on their reputation.
Tasting note: From start (June 1965) to finish a consistently beautiful wine. One of the top '63s and one of the best-ever Fonsecas. Half a dozen notes in the 1990s, but in the mid-decade losing colour though still lovely, and a fragant, elegant Oporto-bottling in 1998 surviving 'Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut Praline' (oh dear! Why do these American gourmets do this?). Most recently, medium-deep, richly coloured; cinnamon and cress fragrance; still sweet, fairly assertive, tall, shapely, lissom. Last tasted Dec 1998 ***** Perfect now-2015 Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
6 bottles per lot
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