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As I was decanting this I thought to myself 'is this the most beautiful-looking of modern ports?'. It has a wonderful slow gradation of colour from opaque to pale rim.

P'n'P for drinking over the course of the week.

Decanting sample - Nose of cinnamon and plum. Palate plum and damson skins, a bit of star anise, then rich summer fruit crumble, some heat, then soft red liquorice. Tobacco, as so often with Fonseca, at end.

Promising much.

And,,,,?

Amazing wine but been expensive since birth

+46 hrs

Has darkened, perhaps 85% opaque.

Agen prunes, dark chocolate, black currant and a hint of cinnamon on the nose.

In the mouth a hit of spice, then black cherry, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, plums in order.

Finish has star anise, fading away into the stars of the Milky Way.

Delicious port. It also passes the 'even the empty glass smells good an hour later' test.

@ Chris Doty - Fonseca 1992 available from Lay & Wheeler in the UK for £72 duty paid right now. 1994 is the pricey one of the recent vintages in the UK - £125 duty paid. I am not at all convinced the latter is worth the 60% premium. This 1992 is really darned good wine.

But, more broadly - from the point of view of an observer and now only occasional participant in the preposterously expensive cr*p-shoot that is burgundy, where even £125 retail means drinking at best a mature 1er Cru wine from a good producer in a minor Cotes de Nuits village or major Cotes de Beaune village - this 1992 port, from a top class producer in an excellent vintage, is absurdly cheap.

I am really looking forward to the 1992 tasting early next year, I am getting so much pleasure from this vintage at the moment. It is not fully mature (note - everything will need a 24 hour decant) but it is - at least on the basis of the Vesuvio, Taylor, Fonseca and Malvedos I have had recently - singing.

@ Chris Doty - Fonseca 1992 available from Lay & Wheeler in the UK for £72 duty paid right now.

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Great price w owc

Called to order and their recorded tape told me to email...sigh

I ain’t emailed yet in 2021 and I ain’t starting for these folks

Chris Doty wrote: ↑12:20 Wed 19 May 2021 I ain’t emailed yet in 2021 and I ain’t starting for these folks

You are a strange man.

MigSU wrote: ↑12:55 Wed 19 May 2021

Chris Doty wrote: ↑12:20 Wed 19 May 2021 I ain’t emailed yet in 2021 and I ain’t starting for these folks

You are a strange man.

You don’t know the half of it!