1963 Mackenzie

[jdaw1]

To celebrate the Quinquagenary of AHB, he arranged a horizontal of 1963s in Wokingham at The Cantley House Hotel (evenings of Friday 11^th and Saturday 12^th October 2013) and The Walter Arms (lunch on Saturday 12^th), and two evening Champagne tastings for our better halves. Sadly the venue was not able to accommodate all he would have liked to have invited. Diaries had been blocked since early 2012, and bottles had been gathered for most of a decade before that. A splendid weekend indeed.

Partial links:
• Review of the event as a whole, which starts with a full set of links;
• Placemats (and parameters by which constructed).

[jdaw1]

[jdaw1]

[jdaw1]

Some links:
• Review which includes links to the Champagnes; Placemats and their Parameters;
• Fri evening 1963s: VS QH GC Ck G | Kh Pç Mg Av F | RV Rs S Dl Cn;
• Sat aftern’n 1963s: Sb RVi RCV Ad RO | Dm BBR T Cr Ni | Mk Fd O Mz;
• Sat evening 1963s: MC W D N NN | A B&I Df PS Cv | GB Cá CáF B Fr;
• Others: 1863 Burmester, 1977 Warre (tappitt hen), Martinez Crusted bottled 1973, 1966 Château Batailley (magnum).

[jdaw1]

Mk63. red, 40% opaque. Nose noted as ‟’orrible”.   JDAW to DRT: ‟Was the taste the same as the nose?”   DRT: ‟worse”.

[DRT]

Good colour — strange nose and sugary sweet. Not nice.

[uncle tom]

Full and quite elegant, but a little bit woody — oxidised?

[WS1]

Glorious red colour, orange rim; slightly restrained cherry nose; a bit one dimensional in complexity but very good long finish; umami taste, great port but lacks a bit mid palate.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Mid-red with a copper edge; 40% opaque, Smelly nose, not attractive and showing considerable heat. Thick in texture with rich chocolate tannins supporting a sweet and concentrated red jelly bean flavour giving a lovely palate presence. The jelly bean comes through on the aftertaste and leads to an attractive length finish that is full of sharp dried cranberries. 88/100. Drunk 12-Oct-13. Decanted 3 hours.