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Noval 1963 cork

Croft 1963 capsule

Protruding cork:

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

The bottles of Croft 1963 and Offley Boa Vista 1963.

The bottles of Offley Boa Vista 1963 and Croft 1963.

I leave to go snowboarding very early on Friday 29 February, returning late Saturday 15th March. So Thursday 28th would be terrible for me (and I’m bringing most of the 1977s). And beacause John Danza’s ticket doesn’t work on that date, we aren’t tied to it. What about one night between Thursday 20t...

Many of the 1963s were light in colour.

If the branding goes around the top, it is more likely to be whole. But cork direction is effectively random, so such a cork is as likely to have the name at the wetter end. So branding around both ends would be best. Failing which, for Derek’s reason, along. But if branding is along, please, on bot...

Delaforce 1963 non-capsule:

Do people have strident views on whether corks should be branded along or around?

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Delaforce 1963 cork:

Delaforce 1963 bottle:

Cockburn 1963 bottle:

Cockburn 1963 cork and capsule

Paperwork.

Glasses from the side-ish:

Glasses from above:

Left-to-right: PMD, SRG, AHB (not in red jacket!), MRZ, JDAW, HEG. Camera held by SC.

That’s a shame because:

1. I’d like to meet you; and
2. your name begins with a “J†.

My wine of the night, though that vote was far from unanimous. A great colour of mature port, dark red, with neither purple nor brown. Nosing of an unspecified spice, and of chocolate. The spice strongly present in the mid-palate, though this feature identified by AHB (I think misidentified) as “bit...

It’s Fonseca from a great vintage. Is that enough? Do I really need to say more? OK, here goes. A lovely dark red, very similar to that of the Taylor 1963 , and a touch lighter on the nose. In the mouth starting with very very large fruit, and—like the Graham 1963 —great sticky mouthfeel that roll...

A very fine port indeed, and my number three of this horizontal. The Graham was mid-red, with surprisingly little to the nose. But the mouthfeel was a huge sticky perfectly-melded sugar-and-fruit thing that lasted ages and ages and longer in the mouth. Great stuff. Alas I have but one more bottle of...

I had trouble deciding whether the Noval 1963 was great or ordinary. Middling red to the eye. I, supported by SC, found lavender and sugar. PMD and SRG found black cherries. The taste started rich and fruity, and fatty unctuousness. Lovely. But the aftertaste was mostly alcohol. Some people had this...

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 th...