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1966 Quinta do Foz vintage port
Plastic snap-on capsule; UK bottled by the Wine Society and with a Wine Society label but with a cork clearly branded Quinta do Foz 1966; light green glass. Decanted easily and left a lot of sediment in the bottle.

A lovely rich, red colour, deep centre, deep rim. Wonderfully open on the nose, sweet and inviting, full of dates and ripe Victoria plums. Quite dry on entry and with a pronounced acidity but a lovely, rich sweetness develops and fills the mouth with cinnamon and plums. Quite hot initially on the aftertaste, but this quickly fades to leave a long and very robust pear and chocolate finish. Delicious and a real surprise to me as the first Quinta do Foz I have ever tried. Very good indeed. 91/100 after 24 hours in the decanter. Drunk on 9 Jan 2009.

Sounds like a grave omission from the ’66 horizontal.

Only solution: we will have to do another.

But this was my only bottle, bought as part of a mini-vertical so that I could acquire some of the '63 Foz. So even if we did have another '66 horizontal we would not be able to include the Foz.

But I am mightily impressed by it. I was expecting something quite weak and tired. Instead it is robust but still intellectual with all the hidden depths it shows.

Yummy.

So what you are saying is that we will have to do another ’66 horizontal, in order to include a bottle that we would have to acquire just for the occasion. Works for me.

My prejudice about a Foz ’66 would have been like yours though, like you, it isn’t a name that I can recall having previously sampled.

I have a feeling that a new standard is about to be set in terms of what constitutes a Horizontal Tasting. Our 1966 Horizontal will not come close to meeting that standard so it will be essential to do another one at some point