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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.

Deep red, a surprising amount of bricking with a narrow rim and an opaque centre. Stewed fruit on the nose, slightly earthy with some slight bottle stink on the nose. On the palate this is smooth, like molten milk chocolate, full of stewed and slightly bitter fruit but still with the bottle stink flavours showing. Hot and unbalanced on the palate at first, this does give way to a reasonable finish that has a great length. There is some dryness across the whole of the flavour profile from the tannins. This is overly developed for my expectations from a relatively young vintage. 88/100. Decanted 26 hours.