Vintage Port 1948
| Vintage | Rating | Broad- bent | Suckling | Declared houses | Known brands | Comment |
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| 1948 | Outstanding to Classic | 4 | 99 | 9 | 24 |
| 1948: | Adams Barros Burmester Butler Nephew Calem Cockburn Croft Dow's Feuerheerd Fonseca Gonzalez Byass Graham's Kopke Mac Duff Mackenzie Morgan Quinta da Foz Quinta de Vargellas Quinta do Bomfim Real Companhia Velha Royal Oporto Sandeman Taylor Warre |
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| House | Fonseca | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Beautiful, yellow and mature in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Enormous bouquet of roasted coffee, tea, crème caramel, crème candy, violets, some liquorice and much, much more in the nose. | Score range | 18.00 - 19.75 |
| Taste | Full bodied. Mature and peaking. Balanced and quite sweet with plenty of violets, roasted coffee, cream candy, liquorice and much of other things in the mouth with an excellent, long, attractive and intensive finish which makes it all heavenly. What a port! | Average score | 18.88 |
| Last tasted | 24th February 2024 | Point this date | 18.00 |
| Comment | Tasted at home with the family. This bottle belongs to Gerda and Ole Vesterdal Private Collection. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Gonzalez- Byass | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Mature yellow, almost tawny colour. | Number of tastings | 3 |
| Bouquet | Crème caramel, roasted coffee beans, some spiciness, cacao, chocolate and a hint of pharmacy in the nose. Quite old but also delicious bouquet. | Score range | 14.00 - 17.40 |
| Taste | Medium body. Mature and peaking but balanced with some old and quite delicate acidity. Complex, elegant and with some sweetness and a lovely and quiet long finish. Astonishing good and very delicate port! | Average score | 16.05 |
| Last tasted | 1st August 2018 | Point this date | 17.40 |
| Comment | At home with the family. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Graham | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Mature yellow in colour. | Number of tastings | 8 |
| Bouquet | Bouquet of coffee, cacao, ginger and much more. | Score range | 16.75 - 18.90 |
| Taste | Full-bodied. Mature and peaking. Complex and balanced with an enormous finish. Just wonderful. What a port!! | Average score | 17.89 |
| Last tasted | 15th December 2011 | Point this date | 18.00 |
| Comment | At the Wine Society 18% tasting in Malmö. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Kopke | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Mature yellow quite beautiful in colour. | Number of tastings | 5 |
| Bouquet | Nuts, coffee beans, cacao, cream candy and old grocery shop in the nose. | Score range | 15.75 - 17.50 |
| Taste | Full-bodied. Mature peaking and absolutely om top- Balanced and very complex. Elegant in taste with crème caramel, toffee, cream candy and a lot of other tastes in the mouth with a wonderful almost never ending finish. Unbelievable. | Average score | 16.93 |
| Last tasted | 30th March 2018 | Point this date | 17.25 |
| Comment | At home with the family. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Mac Duff | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Yellow mature in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Cedar, raisins, toffee and candy in the nose. | Score range | 15.40 - 15.40 |
| Taste | Medium body. Mature and peaking. Balanced with cedar and toffee in taste. Easy to drink and like with a rather long and quite elegant finish. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 24th February 2024 | Point this date | 15.40 |
| Comment | Taste at home with the family. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Mackenzie | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Mature, tawny in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Lovely nose of old hospital, fudge and pharmacy. | Score range | |
| Taste | Medium body. Mature and past its peak but lovely, still holding and elegant with fudge in flavour and quite long and interesting finish. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 25th December 2011 | Point this date | 16.40 |
| Comment | At home with the family. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Taylor | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Still quite dark but beautiful, yellow mature in colour. | Number of tastings | 2 |
| Bouquet | What a nose! Coffee, tea, cacao, dark chocolate, toffee, violet, sweet liquorice, ginger, some Christmas spiciness, mature dark berries and much, much more in the nose. | Score range | 18.00 - 19.50 |
| Taste | Full-bodied. Mature and peaking. Incredible concentration, complexity and balance. Mature fruit in flavour but also, dark chocolate, cacao, coffee, toffee, ginger, sweet liquorice and so on . A wonderful, very attractive finish which never seem to end. What a port! | Average score | 18.75 |
| Last tasted | 23rd December 2018 | Point this date | 19.50 |
| Comment | At home with the family. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |