1948 Fonseca

[jdaw1]

Luncheon on Wednesday 12^th December 2018, at Otto’s French restaurant on the Gray’s Inn Road, 1948s.

Links:
• Review;
• 1948 Graham (originally unknown);
• 1948 Burmester;
• 1948 Fonseca;
• 1948 Gonzalez Byass;
• 1948 Graham;
• 1948 Martinez;
• 1948 Sandeman;
• 1948 Taylor;
• 1948 Niepoort Garrafeira;
• 1948 Unknown;
• TNs + sticky labels.

[jdaw1]

F48, Whitwham’s bottling. Dark red, 60% opaque. Dry, especially early palate, with menthol. Heat mid palate. Very long, with cherries in the late palate.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Deep rich copper brown colour, 70% opaque. Surprisingly closed on the nose, nothing more than a little celery salt. A lovely smooth texture on the palate, big tannins despite the bottle age and generous rich mature fruit flavours. Very powerful palate, very flavoursome with lots of dried and concentrated fruit that has a lovely intensity. A perfect balance of tannin and fruit on the aftertaste with a lingering redcurrant concentrate finish. This is very nice, big but lacks some of the finesse normally associated with mature Fonseca. 95/100. 12-Dec-18.