1963 Fonseca Vintage Port

[NickA]

Somewhat closed nose; dates, curranty, concentrated red fruits. Firm palate; richer fruit than the above ports with good extract – but still not supple and open enough for readiness for drinking. Some tannic astringency still – quite long. Opens a touch with air to show dense, slightly smokey/burnt fruit. Still unwinding but certainly classic. 94+ today, should improve significantly if it opens out as hoped. 94+ points

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[Symon B]

bottle into neck compleatly delisouse multi layered full of sweet dried fruit prunes fig exelent ballence round neckter drinking well now turning a littlein its evolution into nexed stage colour ruby with tea hint one of the best iv ever had 9.8 symonb

[Niels Stroejer]

Hi Nick A

Can you tell something about how long time before drinking you opened the 1963 ?

Going to drink Fonseca 1963 on both 20 february and 11. march, and have experienced the bottle as you describe it a couple of times before. i think i might have opened them to late.

Cheers

Niels