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 Mackenzie Morgan Quinta da Foz Quinta de Vargellas Quinta do Bomfim Real Companhia Velha Royal Oporto Sandeman Smith Woodhouse Taylor Warre |
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| House | Fonseca | Vintage | 1948 |
| Colour | Still very dark. Unbelievable colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Enormous bouquet of coffee, tea, crème caramel and much more. | Score range | 19.75 - 19.75 |
| Taste | Full bodied Sweet with plenty of violet and still with tannins. Long excellent and balance finish. Still a long way to go but marvellous now. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 7th January 1984 | Point this date | 19.75 |
| Comment | At a tasting in wine friend’s home. | Tasters | SAI |
| 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 | 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 |