Decant: 2 hours - Decanted for 2 hours before tasting and drunk on 30/1/08. From an Adam's labelled bottle that was leaking slightly and with a top shoulder fill. Very pale colour, tawny looking, distinctly orange with a pale green rim. On the nose I picked up violets and some unintegrated alcohol. This port had a neutral entry with a good acidic structure and flavours of barley sugars. Orange peel and grapefruit juice came through in the mid-palate. The aftertaste was of moderate length and was just like sucking on a barley sugar.
A rather unremarkable port that wasn't bad, just old. 1/0 on the Uncle Tom scale or 86/100. 86 points
TN: 1963 Royal Oporto Quinta das Carvalhas Vintage Port
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