1963 Sandeman
Posted: 05:28 Fri 08 Nov 2024
Tasted here
Lovely condition BBR bottling, uncorked at c.8.00am and double decanted at c.2.30pm for 6.30pm tasting.
Attractively medicinal but sweet nose, a mixture of cranberry dryness and orange peel bitterness on the palate, reasonably rich with hint of pepper. Distinguished mature port that I was rather pleased with (having purchased a lot of five bottles in 2015 but never tasted). Perhaps let down a tad by being slightly cloying at the finish / aftertaste, and therefore less more-ish than the very best. 91 pts seems fair
Other bottles from this lot will be drunk with appreciation over the medium term rather than kept as library stock.
Lovely condition BBR bottling, uncorked at c.8.00am and double decanted at c.2.30pm for 6.30pm tasting.
Attractively medicinal but sweet nose, a mixture of cranberry dryness and orange peel bitterness on the palate, reasonably rich with hint of pepper. Distinguished mature port that I was rather pleased with (having purchased a lot of five bottles in 2015 but never tasted). Perhaps let down a tad by being slightly cloying at the finish / aftertaste, and therefore less more-ish than the very best. 91 pts seems fair
Other bottles from this lot will be drunk with appreciation over the medium term rather than kept as library stock.