1963 Niepoort

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jdaw1
Cockburn 1851
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1963 Niepoort

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In a bottle of Fonseca 1963 was a question rather than a certain answer:
jdaw1 wrote: 13:45 Sat 17 Feb 2018Are the 1963s coming into their second wind?
Recognising that this scientific question needed scientific experiment, a round dozen of us gathered to test some 1963s.

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PhilW
Dalva Golden White Colheita 1952
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Re: 1963 Niepoort

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Murky in colour, unfortunately this was not in great condition; there was some underlying complexity providing hints of what this wine might be, but the flavour had probably been somewhat stripped through filtering at decant (understood to have been filtered twice to try and resolve the haze). I had been looking forward to this wine, but sadly this bottle did not deliver as hoped.
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Graham’s 1977
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Re: 1963 Niepoort

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60% opacity, brown, totally cloudy. Sugary nose. Sugary sweet, flawed. Perhaps cooked in a loft somewhere during its lifetime.
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Ni63: red-red-brown, cloudy, 40% opaque. Saccharine nose; palate of orange and coffee. Long ending, dominated by coffee.
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