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On Monday 19^th January 2015 we gathered in the Red Room of the Boot and Flogger to drink some Fonseca, including a bottle that had been drawn from an imperial on Saturday 17^th (discussion).

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1985 Fonseca (imperial);
• 1985 Fonseca (magnum ‘#1’);
• 1985 Fonseca (single);
• 1992 Fonseca (‘†’);
• 1999 Ferreira Quinta da Leda (‘‡’);
• 2000 Sandeman;
• 1992 Fonseca (AHB);
• 1970 Fonseca (MPM);
• 1955 Fonseca (IDJ);
• Unknown Fonseca (CMAG);
• 1977 Fonseca (CPR);
• Placemats;
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

S00 (Anthony Habert of Sogrape UK). 90% opaque. Palate mid-weight, black cherry and strawberry.

Deep red colour, opaque but vibrant and full of life. Delicious on the nose with waves of sweet strawberry fruit - perhaps a bit too sweet and tending to a bit of flabbiness. Rounded in the mouth, giving equal weight and flavour across the palate; full of strawberries and dry cocoa powder tannins. Gets quite big with a decent streak of acidity to give good focus and structure. Lovely port; drinking well now but should develop a better presence and more complexity with more time in the cellar. 87/100.