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TN: Fonseca 1966

The Deeper Underground 1966 Horizontal, held at the Crusting Pipe, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8RD, on Monday 28 January 2008.

Links:

• Planning and arrangements: pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
• Review of the evening as a whole;
• TN: Adam 1966;
• TN: Avery 1966;
• TN: Croft 1966;
• TN: Delaforce 1966;
• TN: Dow 1966;
• TN: Fonseca 1966;
• TN: Graham 1966;
• TN: Morgan 1966;
• TN: Noval 1966;
• TN: Noval Nacional 1966;
• TN: Offley Boa Vista 1966;
• TN: Robertson’s Rebello Valente 1966;
• TN: Taylor 1966;
• TN: Warre 1966;
• TN: Berry Brothers & Rudd 1966;
• Placemats and ‘holding bay’ which was later implemented as PrePour.

Purchased at auction in October 2007. Provenance prior to that not known.

Alex

Deepest colour of all the '66 ports tasted this evening, centre barely transparent. Warm and inviting on the nose with a touch of alcohol showing over stewed plums. Initially sweet when hitting the tongue with tannins showing as a light layer of dust. Lovely, fruity and refined. Great mid-palate that just doesn't stop growing as one layer after another - brown sugar and pomegranite juice. Huge aftertaste that fills the mouth and cheeks until you have to take another mouthful. Superb. 9/10 or 95/100. Decanted for 5 hours and drunk on 28/1/08.

Like Ghandih has said elsewhere here this is probably the best port I have ever had. I have been privelaged to share 3 bottles of this with some of those that attended this Offline (I think KillerB is the only one to share all 3 bottles ) and every one of them has been superb.

With a retail price of around £115 this is also fantastic value for money when compared with many other lesser quality wines at the same or a higher price. Just don't tell anyone until we've bought it all

My TN says: "Very dark. Massive - thick - plummy - lasts forever - best again!!"

I rated this 1st and AHB had it at 2nd out of 14.

A big thanks to AHB for adding this to the line-up.

The Heavyweight Champion of the World!!! This, the 63 and 85 are just rippling muscles on a young stallion.

More please.

This was beaten into second by a nose (not mine or it would have been well beaten)I think that this port has more legs than the NN and woulg give it 8-9 onTom's scale.