1963 Port Vintage Report

1963 vintage ports are the benchmark against which others are compared: the Vintage is considered to be legendary. The perfect 60 year old wine gift for a birthday or anniversary, anyone born in 1963 has a wine for life. Cockburn, Croft, Dow, Fonseca, Graham, Quinta do Noval Nacional, Taylor and Warre all stand out amongst a uniformly excellent field of producers. The combination of a near-perfect growing season and temperate weather during the harvest made for this incredible vintage - nearly all the shippers produced supremely balanced and well-structured wines for a full-on declaration. Ports from this year never fail to impress with their essential three components of fruit, tannin and elegance. Ageing supremely and retaining their youth, these ports often appear to be younger than they actually are!

14 products found.

Cockburn Port, 1963

Vintage Port
Excellent Levels | Good Provenace

Reviews:
"Perfectly integrated and showing cherry, raspberry, baker's spices and hints of fig on the nose and palate. With air the fruit became more plummy in character and picked up more complex dried fruit notes. It's sweet, but not Graham's or Fonseca sweet and there's actually some nice acidity to the wine that keeps it fresh. Seamless with the alcohol sewn into the fabric of the wine nicely." Cellar Tracker 2012

'Bright ruby red. Full rich red chocolately spicy aroma. Ripe rich round slightly hot fruit on the palate'. Cellar Tracker tasted 2005.
Rating 94/100 (CT)



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Price: $326.67 USD
Stock: 8 in Stock

Feuerheerd Port, 1963

Vintage Port
bottled & shipped by Hedges & Butler Ltd

The 1963 Feuerheerd is clean, well-focused fruit flavours and a fresh, balanced finish. Medium tawny with a ruby hue, fresh black cherry aromas, medium-bodied, with very clean cherry flavours and a long, balanced finish.
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Price: $321.42 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Graham's Port, 1963

Vintage Port
Grants of St James Label

An outstanding 1963 Port scoring 96/100 Parker Points.

Reviews: "What a stunning 1963 vintage port this is! The bouquet draws you in, does not drag you in with its alcohol and reveals a fresh, well defined nose with a nutty edge, hints of cigar box and allspice. The palate is beautifully balanced, understated on the entry but building all the time, flashes of eucalyptus leading towards a more extrovert, clove tinged finish that hangs around the palate like an obsessed ex-girlfriend. Gorgeous Grahams! Tasted May 2009." Neil Martin, Wine Journal
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Price: $491.98 USD
Stock: 4 in Stock

Graham's Port, 1963

Vintage Port
***96 Parker Points***
Unlabelled
Excellent Provenance

An outstanding 1963 Port scoring 96/100 Parker Points.

Reviews: "What a stunning 1963 vintage port this is! The bouquet draws you in, does not drag you in with its alcohol and reveals a fresh, well defined nose with a nutty edge, hints of cigar box and allspice. The palate is beautifully balanced, understated on the entry but building all the time, flashes of eucalyptus leading towards a more extrovert, clove tinged finish that hangs around the palate. Gorgeous Grahams! Tasted May 2009." Neil Martin, Wine Journal
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Price: $426.38 USD
Stock: 19 in Stock

Quinta do Noval Nacional, 1963

Noval Nacional (in neck)

Noval is particularly famous for its Nacional, a Port produced in some years only from a 2 hectare parcel at the heart of the Noval vineyard where ungrafted pre phylloxera vines survive.

"Last July I enjoyed this "legend" at Noval and consumed my share of an entire bottle that was opened for our small group of Port journalists. This VP had a very dark ruby color and was clearly from a perfectly stored bottle. The 1963 is as lithe and graceful as a trapeze artist, and showed what perfection in balance is all about. It is not easy for Port to get much better than this. Sweet, spicy, grapey, mint, big, bold, brash are all apt descriptors.
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Price: $6,428.48 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Quinta do Noval Port, 1963

Vintage Port
Bottled by Hedges and Butler
Excellent provenance
Special Offer | Was £275 | Now £225

From the legendary 1963 Port vintage, we are delighted to offer the 1963 Quinta do Noval Vintage Port. These bottles have been stored in a cool cellar since original purchase, until they were acquired by us. The levels, condition and colour are fabulous and will make a wonderful gift for a 60th Birthday or anniversary.

The 1963 Noval has a medium, dark red towards garnet colour, with plum, ripe berry, chocolate and tar aromas and flavours. This medium-bodied Port is now showing very nicely in its maturity. Moderate and very soft tannins, with sweet tobacco and cherry flavours on the long finish.
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Price: $295.19 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock

Taylor's Port, 1963

Vintage Port- MAGNUM
Excellent Provenance

Ruby highlights surviving in the colour. Deep, intense, Burgundian richness. At first the spirit is rather overpowering. Then dark chocolate starts appearing, followed by herbal, gum cistus, licorice, cigar box, leathery quality really comes through in the mouth and a slightly medicinal character. Medium length.

This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal. Their ports are remarkably backward yet still impressive when young. Of all the vintage ports, those of Taylor need the longest time to mature and even when fully mature seem to have an inner strength and firmness that keep them going for decades.
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Price: $1,830.15 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock

Taylor's Port, 1963

Vintage Port
Grants of St James Label - excellent provenance

Ruby highlights surviving in the colour. Deep, intense, Burgundian richness. At first the spirit is rather overpowering. Then dark chocolate starts appearing, followed by herbal, gum cistus, licorice, cigar box, leathery quality really comes through in the mouth and a slightly medicinal character. Medium length.

This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal. Their ports are remarkably backward yet still impressive when young. Of all the vintage ports, those of Taylor need the longest time to mature and even when fully mature seem to have an inner strength and firmness that keep them going for decades.
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Price: $426.38 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Taylor's Port, 1963

Vintage Port
Bottled by Hedges and Butler
Torn Label
Excellent Provenance

A very special offer - exclusively to our subscribers. Taylors 1963 - excellent condition and provenance. Please note that we are limiting this offer to a maximum of 1 bottle per order so that as many customers as possible benefit from this offer.


Ruby highlights surviving in the colour. Deep, intense, Burgundian richness. At first the spirit is rather overpowering. Then dark chocolate starts appearing, followed by herbal, gum cistus, licorice, cigar box, leathery quality really comes through in the mouth and a slightly medicinal character. Long lingering finish.

This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal.
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Price: $426.38 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Taylor's Port, 1963

Vintage Port
Grants of St James Label - excellent provenance
Damaged Labels

Ruby highlights surviving in the colour. Deep, intense, Burgundian richness. At first the spirit is rather overpowering. Then dark chocolate starts appearing, followed by herbal, gum cistus, licorice, cigar box, leathery quality really comes through in the mouth and a slightly medicinal character. Medium length.

This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal. Their ports are remarkably backward yet still impressive when young. Of all the vintage ports, those of Taylor need the longest time to mature and even when fully mature seem to have an inner strength and firmness that keep them going for decades.
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Price: $392.27 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock

Warre's Vintage Port, 1963

Vintage Port
bottled & shipped by Hedges & Butler Ltd

Outstanding Vintage Port from one of the best vintages of the last century.

Reviews:
“…for me this is now one of the best and most elegant of all the ‘63s. I have made a total of sixteen notes since the early 1980s when it emerged, fully fledged and totally delicious”.
Michael Broadbent , Vintage Wine, Published 2002
01/01/2002

"Extremely impressive, with beautifully balanced, harmonious sweet fruit on the palate. Medium ruby-red, ripe cherry and cassis aromas, medium-bodied, with rich, velvety fruit flavors, full, soft tannins and a powerful finish".
James Suckling , Wine Spectator
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Price: $326.67 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Maynard's Port, 1963

Colheita Port, Douro
In Decanter Gift box

1963 Colheita Port Exclusive to VWP.
This rare port-wine has been stored in seasoned oak casks since the 1963 harvest until it was bottled this year.

Tasting Notes: The 1963 Port from Maynard Very complex nose with marked volatile acidity, exotic wood, liquorice sauce, orange zest, lavender and light nougat. Medium weight, elegant and quite intense on the palate. Intense and long finish.


Colheita Port Storage and Serving Advice:
Colheita Port should be stored in a cool and dry place, sheltered from light and temperature fluctuations, and the bottle should remain in an upright position.
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Price: $326.67 USD
Stock: Out of Stock

Kopke, 1963

Colheita Port in Kopke Presentation Box
UK Exclusive

Just 24 bottles have been released to the UK market. We are proud to offer them exclusively in the UK through Vintage Wine and Port.

This Colheita port from the excellent 1963 harvest has been stored in oak barrels until being bottled in 2023. Only 24 Bottles will be released to the UK market and they are available exclusively through Vintage Wine and Port

Tasting notes: Amber colour. Nose: complex and well integrated scented dried fruit aroma, exuberant notes of spices Mouth: concentrated, powerful, rich.


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Price: $413.26 USD
Stock: Out of Stock

Graham's Port, 1963

Single Harvest Tawny Port

This exceptional old Tawny Port brings together the finest crafts of Graham’s long winemaking tradition. It was made in one of the most celebrated years of the 20th century for Port – 1963. In this vintage, Graham’s produced both outstanding Vintage Port (aged in bottle) and Tawny Port (aged in oak casks). This 1963 Single Harvest Old Tawny Port has been aged in seasoned oak casks (barrels) for just over half a century and epitomizes Graham’s hallmark complexity, elegance and balance. The wine was made from grapes grown at Graham’s flagship Douro Valley vineyard in northern Portugal: Quinta dos Malvedos.
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Price: $688.77 USD
Stock: Out of Stock