1963 Sandeman Vintage Port
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1963 Sandeman Vintage Port
Medium plus ruby color. A touch darker than most of the 1963 Vintage Ports. Intense, dusty, spicy complex nose. Very soft, red fruit palate. Medium bodied. Very ready to drink. This is a touch hot in the finish. After a bit I can see that this is VERY hot. Definitely drink up! 86 points.
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Re: 1963 Sandeman Vintage Port
In recent years most of my impressions have been the same except for one shining example that provided a much younger view and harkened back to when this was one of the greats of the vintage. It was my 1st Port ever consumed, early and often at a restaurant I worked at in NYC. 3 oz. pours in 1983 (at 20) were $15 back then. I was wowed by how dark this Port was back in the early to late 1980s. Nowadays it is a bottle by bottle happenstance.
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