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Tasted at the 1963 Horizontal on 18 July 2023.

The wines appearing at the tasting were:
1963 Adam, with a cork branded "Carvalhas 1963"
1963 Borges
1963 Burmester
1963 Cockburn
1963 Constantino
1963 Croft
1963 Fonseca
1963 Graham
1963 Martinez
1963 Quinta do Noval, bottled by Army & Navy Stores
1963 Ramos Pinto
1963 Warre
1977 Fonseca, appearing as a mystery bottle poured and tasted blind

Pale but beautiful light red. Nose a bit dumb. Red fruit, power and smoothness. Lovely middleweight port. Almost everyone liked this.

Rich brick red in colour, 50% opaque. Little given away on the nose, which is surprisingly empty with just a ghost of redcurrant cordial crawling out of the glass. The texture on the palate is lovely, smooth and full of ripe strawberries in light syrup - fresh despite the syrup. The fruit dominates this wine, which is one of the more youthful at this tasting, and holds long into the lovely red fruit finish. 92/100. Decanted 10½ hours.