1985 Fonseca Vintage Port
Posted: 09:09 Tue 19 Jan 2010
Served by the glass in Muscat's best restaurant, where we had dinner to celebrate two years of marriage. Hurray for us.
The sommeliere told us that they brought these bottles in themselves, because there is nothing of the sort available locally (we already figured that one out). She opened the bottle the day before: perfect.
This showed as Fonseca 85 tends to show: dark, tannic, spicy and too young. On other bottles I noticed some lovely fresh aromas as lemongrass, but that was absent on this one. This was more dark spicy (black pepper, nutmeg, cloves) and slightly dusty (not in a bad way though). Full and young tasting, with a peppery finish. Great stuff, a wonderful way to close a very good dinner.
The sommeliere told us that they brought these bottles in themselves, because there is nothing of the sort available locally (we already figured that one out). She opened the bottle the day before: perfect.
This showed as Fonseca 85 tends to show: dark, tannic, spicy and too young. On other bottles I noticed some lovely fresh aromas as lemongrass, but that was absent on this one. This was more dark spicy (black pepper, nutmeg, cloves) and slightly dusty (not in a bad way though). Full and young tasting, with a peppery finish. Great stuff, a wonderful way to close a very good dinner.