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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 marmalade in hue. Orange and coffee on nose. Very pleasant but unexciting. I have written 'Sweet. Port.'

Oporto bottled. Pale orange in colour, 20% opaque. Little showing on the nose although some vigorous swirling coaxed out some stewed gooseberry. Lightly flavoured entry, brown sugar and a little bit of rhubarb. Adequate acidity keeps the balance and allows dusty pink icing sugar and light coffee to emerge on the palate. Bruised apple aftertaste with some menthol emerging on the finish. A pleasant Port, light-bodied with medium complexity.
83/100. Decanted 8½ hours.