1970 Fonseca

[jdaw1]

From Victoria: The Queen, Julia Baird: “Queen Victoria was born, roaring, at 4:15 ᴀ.ᴍ., in the hour before dawn on May 24, 1819”.

The time convenient to us that is closest to the two hundredth anniversary of that would be the evening of Thursday 23^rd May 2019.

And we did.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• The Ports:
  • 1963 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1960 Croft;
  • 1963 Sandeman;
  • 1963 Dow;
  • 1966 Taylor;
  • 1966 Fonseca;
  • 1966 Warre;
  • 1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas;
  • 1970 Fonseca;
  • 1970 Warre;
  • 1977 Taylor;
• Placemats;
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

F70. Dark red, 70% opaque. Palate dry, with mint; mid-weight.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Deep red colour, 60% opaque. The nose is restrained, showing some sweet and fragrant red fruit. The palate is generous with sweet fruit, hints of dust and some gentle tannins but with a slight soapy tone giving a lovely mouthful but oddly unbalanced for this normally glorious Port. Dark coffee with a milk chocolate aftertaste and a big candied cherry finish that is lingering and very fine. This is a big and generous Port but this bottle is not as well balanced as normal - could this be starting to shut down in the way the 1960s did about 10 years ago? 89/100.