1966 Fonseca

[jdaw1]

A 1966 horizontal, on Tuesday 10th September 2019, at The Boot & Flogger.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
  • 1966 Croft;
  • 1966 Fonseca;
  • 1966 Taylor;
  • 1966 Sandeman;
  • 1966 Offley;
  • 1966 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1966 Dow;
  • 1966 Warre;
  • 1966 Graham;
  • 1966 Graham, 2016 release;
  • 1966 Smith Woodhouse;
  • 1966 Gould Campbell;
  • 1966 Adams;
  • 1967 Cockburn (late addition, glass placed upper-right);
• Placemats (and parameters by which made and discussion in the software thread);
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

F66, decanted noon. Glorious red, 40% opaque. Palate of red fruit and pepper, mid length, soft, long, and dry at end. It’s less than an old-school F66, but still delightful.

Later it had grown in the glass, but not to the dark-fruit mass of F66 as they used to be.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Unexpectedly for a Fonseca 1966, this was an elegant and well structured bottle; mature and drinking nicely. Not quite in my top three wines for the night I seemed to like this much more than most others on the day. (Notes lost.) 91/100.