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1970 Fonseca Vintage Port
Port: 750ml
$199.99
about this wine:
"Fonseca vintage ports are renowned for their great fruit richness and voluptuousness, and, while powerful and mouthfilling, for their breed and balance. In the context of each vintage, they combine the tannic dimension and "grip" which give great port its longevity with the structure and complexity that are Fonseca's hallmark. Among the Douro's first growths, Fonseca Vintage Port is clearly the "Pétrus" of Port...The 92 vintage has a much smaller declaration than the 1991s. The year began with the worst winter drought conditions since records began. It hardly rained until June and even then it rained for just a few days. Summer remained dry but the weather was warm rather than baking hot and a few timely rainstorms in August came as a welcome relief to growers. The harvest began on September 21st but those who waited until the beginning of October have produced the finest Ports... "
points awarded:
WA 93 WS 9693 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, January 1989
Fonseca is one of the great port lodges, producing the most exotic and most complex port. If Fonseca lacks the sheer weight and power of a Taylor, Dow or Warre, or the opulent sweetness and intensity of a Graham, it excels in its magnificently complex, intense bouquet of plummy, cedary, spicy fruit and long, broad, expansive flavors. With its lush, seductive character, one might call it the Pomerol of Vintage ports. When it is young, it often loses out in blind tastings to the heavier, weightier, more tannic wines, but I always find myself upgrading my opinion of Fonseca after it has had 7-10 years of age. The 1970, of course, is a powerful Fonseca with an exotic bouquet and lush, creamy, multidimensional flavors.
96 points,
Wine Spectator, January 1989
Some people may enjoy this wine's rather fat, rich and powerful fruit now, but I still find it too young for drinking. Deeply colored, with smoky mint, tar and fruit aromas, full-bodied, with concentrated fruit flavors and plenty of tannins. –JS
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