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1963 Offley Boa Vista, part of a 1963 horizontal At my father’s in Sussex, on Saturday 2nd February 2008.

Links to relevant threads:

• Review of evening as a whole;
• Hedges and Butler 1963 magnum;
• Cockburn 1963;
• Croft 1963;
• Delaforce 1963;
• Dow 1963;
• Fonseca 1963;
• Graham 1963;
• Offley Boa Vista 1963;
• Taylor 1963;
• Noval 1963.

I have had very little experience of OBV. Indeed, the only sample of it that I could recall was an OBV 1972 drunk eight days previously.

Mid-red, nosing of rich well-melded sugar. The initial taste is lovely, heavy soft fruit, which promptly disappeared to be replaced with crude alcohol. Great at the start, then ordinary. Sort of like England at Twickenham.

The bottles of Offley Boa Vista 1963 and Croft 1963.

Zoom-in on the price: “European Wine Warehouse Selection†, “2·79†. So a post-decimalisation price (so post 15 February 1971).

Protruding cork:

Decanted 4½ hours. Mid-red colour, orange rim. Sweet cherry nose, dusty and delicately perfumed. Glides into the mouth and brings a lot of tannins within the ripe fruit. Lovely, balanced and floral flavours in the mouth. Glorious aftertaste that just fades a little too quickly for my liking. Pleasant but not great. 5/5 or 90/100. Drunk 2/2/08.