Thank you Alex for this fantastic event as part of your 50th birthday celebrations! It was brilliant! After just having gone through all my tasting notes of the opened 44 different 1963 ports and put them on the
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port tasting section I am a bit puzzled what I should write as a review of the overall event. Most noteably it was great fun and superbly organised. Also it was hard work trying/drinking all this port and I must say on Saturday late evening I was happy that we were through the line up.
Quality wise I must say I am still fond of the overal quality of 1963 vintage ports. However it is also noticeable that the taste experience is these days heavyly biased to the provenance of the bt of port from this vintage. Most ports have already started or are about to start to lighten up in color and hence I feel they should be in most cases no longer cellared but rather enjoyed over the coming years. Some will still last several decades (e.g. like Fonseca, Noval Nacional, Taylor) provided they were kept well and are contined to be stored well. Some others however I am not so sure. My personal favourite of the 1963 vintage (I cannot afford Nacional
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) Grahams did not show well on this tasting but usually still does provided coming from a good bt. But sadly also starts to loosen its color; hence I will put my stashed away case back in my reach.
Suprises for me of the weekend were Dolamore, Viera de Souza and Sibio. Fantastic ports which I did not know before at all! Despite I knew how good old Avery ports are the 1963 was still a bit of a suprise since the first Avery VP without reference to the shipper. The oddity of the event was for me the Quinta de la Rosa (Sandeman) bt. Really great!
Thank you very much again for this great tasting!
regards
WS1