Port Wine

Wine Spectator, 95 points: This is a shade darker and richer than its peers, with warm toffee, hazelnut cream, roasted vanilla, cinnamon and walnut husk leading the way, backed by halva, pistachio oil and dried fig details. Lush through the...

For The Love of Port, 93 points: Possessing a fine bouquet of Kirsch and briary scents, it developed light hints of spearmint the 2nd day. Smooth, medium weight and generously fruited with waves of off-dry dark cherry, almost syrupy in the middle, but...

Wine Spectator, 98 points: This is distinctive, with youthfully rambunctious dark currant, fig and blackberry fruit paste flavors liberally spiked with bramble, Turkish coffee and ganache notes. As the fruit pumps through the finish, a tarry...

Wine Spectator, 98 points: Gorgeous, with warm plum reduction and gently steeped raspberry, blackberry and boysenberry fruit flavors forming the core, all inlaid with warm ganache and smoldering tobacco accents. Very plush in feel, but has no lack...

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: Cellar Selection. The dark, almost black color and the wonderful violet aromas set the scene for this complex, dense and textured wine. It has a touch of spice, along with the rich plum and dark berry fruits. While it is...

For The Love of Port, 93 points: Bottled 2010. Mr. Messias Baptista was the Chairman of the company from its founding in 1926 up until 1973. Medium amber color with a greenish tinge on the rim. Seductive and understated scents of mandarin orange, wood...

Wine Enthusiast, 92 points: An impressive, finely tannic Port with solid, ripe fruits and great black jelly and fig flavors.

Wine Enthusiast, 96 points: Dense and serious a powerful vintage as would be expected from Fonseca. The whole emphasis of the wine pushes the tannins forward but this structure is based on black plums with dark fruit skins and a solid chunky...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: 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...