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From the F-Plan II - This Time we Mean Guimaraens, held in Utrecht, 9th July, 2010.

1970 Fonseca
1975 Fonseca
1976 Fonseca Guimaraens
1977 Fonseca
1984 Fonseca Guimaraens
1985 Fonseca
1986 Fonseca Guimaraens
1987 Fonseca Guimaraens
1988 Fonseca Guimaraens
1991 Fonseca Guimaraens
1992 Fonseca
1994 Fonseca
1995 Fonseca Guimaraens
1997 Fonseca
2000 Fonseca
2003 Fonseca
2005 Fonseca
2007 Fonseca
2008 Fonseca Guimaraens (Sample)
2008 Quinta do Panascal (Sample)

Caramel nose, little to no fruit, too acidic with a fair bit, but not over-powering VA. Not really very good.

Wine was send by mail from WS1, thanks for this again.

Light, orange-red color with strong hints of age. Fragile in structure. Nose showed off very nicely with all the good stuff a matured VP should have: mainly toffee and caramel notes. The palate was rather disapointing: alcohol and the resulting sharpness from it. Nice bouquet though. A port solely to smell on.

Axel

First flight, served alongside the 1984 Guimaraens.

Very pale, brownish colour. A soft and pleasant nose with some sweet caramelized sugar and faint raspberry. Very sharp to taste. All fruit gone, leaving all tawny / sherry-like flavours. Thin, sharp, and a bitter finish. Did I mention sharp already? Pretty nasty. 80 points.

While the port may not have been very good (although the nose was actually quite pretty) I enjoyed tasting it. It was one of the ports from my birth year that I hadn't tried yet.