NV Fonseca Crusted 2008 (Bicentenary edition)

[jdaw1]

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.

[jdaw1]

Bicentenary Crusted and the '92 both decanted. All seems well.

[jdaw1]

Fonseca Bincentenary Crusted. 100% opaque. Too young. It will be good, but it needs — and typically won’t be allowed — a decade in the cellar.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Bottled 2008.

Deep red with no purple, medium rim and an opaque centre. Powerful on the nose, full of fruit and flowers but with a fruity acidity adding a dose of astringency; the overall impression on the nose is slightly unbalanced. Youthful on the palate but with a mature tone to the fruit. The fruit is flavoured with the presence of cornflowers and esteva, balanced by pleasant and ripe acidity. There is a touch of burn from the acidity on the aftertaste which lasts into the finish before a long dark chocolate and sour red fruit melange takes over and persists for some time. 89/100. Decanted 25 hours.