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On Tuesday 5th May 2015, the evening before The B.F.T., in the year of Fonseca’s 200^th Bicentenary, we gathered in the Boot & Flogger and tasted some Fonsecas.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1948 Fonseca (AHB);
• 1955 Fonseca (IDJ);
• 1958 Fonseca Guimaraens = † (THRA);
• 1960 Fonseca (IDJ);
• 1963 Fonseca (TC);
• 1966 Fonseca (IDJ);
• 1970 Fonseca (RLC);
• 1975 Fonseca (TC);
• 1977 Fonseca (PW);
• 1980 Fonseca (RLC);
• 1983 Fonseca (CPR);
• 1985 Fonseca single (DRL);
• 1985 Fonseca magnum (JDAW);
• 1992 Fonseca (MPM);
• 1994 Fonseca (CPR);
• Fonseca Waterloo (MPM);
• Fonseca Bicentenary Crusted (MPM);
• Food order;
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

F83. Bright red-pink. Light and pleasant non-Fonseca Port.

30% opacity, amber red. Bad nose - bacterial/VA. Palate - terrible.

Light burnished copper, 40% opaque. Gentle smelly nose, a touch of bottle stink that makes this mildly astringent. Soft on entry, slightly unpleasant fruit - sweet but tainted. Gentle dry tannins under the bruised and mouldy fruit. There is some harshness to the aftertaste, dry on the early finish but sweet, jellied redcurrant on the finish. Rather out of whack at the moment. One to leave for 5 years in the hope and expectation will improve it. 83/100.