1963 Borges

[Alex Bridgeman]

Decanted for 1 hour and drunk on 30/1/08.

Very pale orange with green on the rim. Marshmallow on the nose, accompanied by creamy coffee and caramel. A sweet entry with raisins and sultanas. Some coffee coming through the mid-palate with lemon juice and licorice. A warming aftertaste of modest duration that again fills the mouth and has a touch of bitter lemon about it. I would describe this as "fireside sipping port". 0/0 or 85/100.

[DRT]

From the same bottle served blind...

Amber/orange colour. Thick and slightly bitter. Not good.

I know that this wine can be better than this as I have some that still show a fair amount of red colour and have not fallen apart like this one had. This seems to have been cooked, light damaged or in some other way destroyed through poor storage.

Derek

[Tsunami]

really not a great glass of port.

did anyone finish his glass

[DRT]

Links to the other ports from the line-up:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1963 Borges;
• 1963 Royal Oporto;
• 1970 Warre;
• 1983 Harvey's (Martinez);
• 1985 Martinez.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I came back to what was left of this after completing my trip round the US. I think that makes it 17 days after opening.

If anything, this has improved slightly. It has certainly thickened in texture and now tastes pleasantly of seville orange and cointreau. Don't get me wrong - this still isn't a good port, but even Elizabeth tasted and said "That's not too bad".