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Links for a tasting of Fonseca Guimaraens, interspersed with some Fonseca, at the RAF Club on Monday 4th April 2011.

• Review of the events as a whole;
• 30Y Fonseca tawny;
• 1933 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1942 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1955 Fonseca;
• 1957 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1960 Fonseca;
• 1961 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1964 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1965 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1966 Fonseca;
• 1967 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1968 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1970 Fonseca;
• 1972 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1976 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1977 Fonseca;
• 1978 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1982 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1984 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1985 Fonseca;
• 1986 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1987 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1988 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1991 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1992 Fonseca;
• 1995 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1996 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 1998 Fonseca Quinta do Panascal;
• 1998 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 2000 Fonseca;
• 2001 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 2004 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• 2005 Fonseca Guimaraens;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

FG87. Dark red, 70% opacity. To taste big and jammy. Strawberry jam? Powerful. AB reported chocolate.

Liked.

Very dark, looking to just have reached maturity; 95% opaque. Lovely fruit on the nose, dark blackberries and a streak of birch sap. On the palate there were some flavours that left me wondering whether the wine was very slightly corked. Very tanninc and with musty fruit flavours, the deep bramble fruit is very earthy. A big wine on the palate. Shows gentle heat and strong sweet blackberry tannins before a long, dry finish of dark bramble fruit and chocolate. A great finish, but an odd palate. 87/100.