Made a penne bolognese tonight and needed a port to reduce in it. Not having a bottle of 1966 Fonseca VP available I went for the equivalent of Noval Nacional 63 instead.
A sort of dark raspberry juice colour and quite thin. Nose is sharp with alcohol. A little thicker in the mouth, there is the typical Croft sweet with a dry finish but little fruit, tannin or acidity. It's basically an acceptable ruby.
This maybe equivalent to the Fonseca 66 story so you are going to have to expand as Al-B did.
I had the Sandeman 66 at the original Crusting Pipe off-line and took the remainder home. It was much better when it wasn't being bludgeoned by Taylor, Graham and Fonseca.
Sorry to go back on topic (the Croft 66 deserves its (it's or its') own thread - I have had the Platinum reserve a number of times and found it best chilled as it takes some of the rough edges off
I agree with that, it's an OK Ruby but has no finesse at all. Chilling it makes a cold, sweet thing with a dry finish. I genuinely prefer the Warre's Heritage which is really quite drinkable.