1963 Royal Oporto vintage port
Posted: 13:35 Thu 31 Jan 2008
Decanted for 2 hours before tasting and drunk on 30/1/08.
Very pale colour, tawny looking, distinctly orange with a pale green rim. On the nose I picked up violets and some unintegrated alcohol.
This port had a neutral entry with a good acidic structure and flavours of barley sugars. Orange peel and grapefruit juice came through in the mid-palate.
The aftertaste was of moderate length and was just like sucking on a barley sugar.
A rather unremarkable port that wasn't bad, just old. 1/0 on the Uncle Tom scale or 86/100.
Very pale colour, tawny looking, distinctly orange with a pale green rim. On the nose I picked up violets and some unintegrated alcohol.
This port had a neutral entry with a good acidic structure and flavours of barley sugars. Orange peel and grapefruit juice came through in the mid-palate.
The aftertaste was of moderate length and was just like sucking on a barley sugar.
A rather unremarkable port that wasn't bad, just old. 1/0 on the Uncle Tom scale or 86/100.