1966 Fonseca

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TN: Fonseca 1966

The Deeper Underground 1966 Horizontal, held at the Crusting Pipe, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8RD, on Monday 28 January 2008.

Links:

• Planning and arrangements: pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
• Review of the evening as a whole;
• TN: Adam 1966;
• TN: Avery 1966;
• TN: Croft 1966;
• TN: Delaforce 1966;
• TN: Dow 1966;
• TN: Fonseca 1966;
• TN: Graham 1966;
• TN: Morgan 1966;
• TN: Noval 1966;
• TN: Noval Nacional 1966;
• TN: Offley Boa Vista 1966;
• TN: Robertson’s Rebello Valente 1966;
• TN: Taylor 1966;
• TN: Warre 1966;
• TN: Berry Brothers & Rudd 1966.

[DRT]

[AHB]

Purchased at auction in October 2007. Provenance prior to that not known.

Alex

[AHB]

Deepest colour of all the '66 ports tasted this evening, centre barely transparent. Warm and inviting on the nose with a touch of alcohol showing over stewed plums. Initially sweet when hitting the tongue with tannins showing as a light layer of dust. Lovely, fruity and refined. Great mid-palate that just doesn't stop growing as one layer after another - brown sugar and pomegranite juice. Huge aftertaste that fills the mouth and cheeks until you have to take another mouthful. Superb. 9/10 or 95/100. Decanted for 5 hours and drunk on 28/1/08.

[DRT]

Like Ghandih has said elsewhere here this is probably the best port I have ever had. I have been privelaged to share 3 bottles of this with some of those that attended this Offline (I think KillerB is the only one to share all 3 bottles ) and every one of them has been superb.

With a retail price of around £115 this is also fantastic value for money when compared with many other lesser quality wines at the same or a higher price. Just don't tell anyone until we've bought it all

My TN says: "Very dark. Massive - thick - plummy - lasts forever - best again!!"

I rated this 1st and AHB had it at 2nd out of 14.

A big thanks to AHB for adding this to the line-up.

[Conky]

The Heavyweight Champion of the World!!! This, the 63 and 85 are just rippling muscles on a young stallion.

More please.

[Simon Lisle]

This was beaten into second by a nose (not mine or it would have been well beaten)I think that this port has more legs than the NN and woulg give it 8-9 onTom's scale.

[jdaw1]