Description
《Terroir Collection》
Fonseca 20 years Old Tawny Port《Terroir Collection - TP763》
Region : Douro, Portugal
Grapes : Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barroca
Alcohol : 20.5 %
Winemaker : David Guimaraens
⭐️Exceptional Vintage for 1995 Port - Wine Advocate regional score 95 pts
⭐️James Suckling: Fonseca as 'the Bentley' of Vintage Port, Like the famous luxury cars, Fonseca Vintage Ports are thoroughbreds, the result of craftsmanship and skill, but also of passion and creativity.
⭐️Robert Parker Wine Buyer's Guide: Fonseca is one of the great port lodges, producing the most exotic and most complex port. With its lush, seductive character, one might call it the Pomerol of Vintage ports.
🏅Wine Enthusiast 94 pts
🏅Wine Spectator 93 pts
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Wine Advocate 92 pts
Beware: Some Ports have a splash of white paint or chalk, called a “Splash Mark”, on the bottle. It tells you which way the bottles were cellared (splash mark up). You too should then store your Port Wine with the splash of white paint uppermost. This way, all the sediment collects uniformly on the same side.
Fonseca has belonged to the first rank of Vintage Port producers since the mid-nineteenth century. Fonseca Vintage Ports are noted for their luscious fruitiness which develops great opulence and complexity with age. Wines born of inspired winemaking and a thorough understanding of viticulture and terroir, they appeal, perhaps more than any other house's Vintage Ports, to the enthusiast and connoisseur.
Vintage Ports represent the finest produce of a single exceptional year. Unlike Ports which age in wood, Vintage Ports will continue to age and improve in bottle for decades, their character bearing the imprint of both vineyard and wine maker.
A constant thread that runs through the history of Fonseca is the family's close involvement with the making of the firm's Vintage Ports. Throughout the 20th century, the making of Fonseca Vintage Ports was overseen by only four family members, Frank, Dorothy, Bruce and David Guimaraens and this has helped to make Fonseca one of the most stylistically consistent of Vintage Port producers.
The firm's Vintage Ports are drawn from its own quintas or estates: Cruzeiro and Santo António in the Pinhão Valley, which have contributed to the firm's Vintage Port blend for 100 years, as well the Távora Valley property of Panascal. Fonseca is unique among Port houses in making three different types of Vintage Port.
Fonseca Vintage Ports are released only when a year produces outstanding wines with long term ageing potential. These classic Vintage Ports are a blend of wines from Cruzeiro, Santo António and Panascal. Cruzeiro contributes concentrated black fruit flavours and firm tannic 'grip'. Panascal adds an opulent luscious fruitiness and a dense velvety texture. Finally, Santo António brings complexity and vibrancy with its fine scented character and fresh acidity.
Although they can be enjoyed when young, Fonseca Vintage Ports will continue to improve in bottle for many decades. They have the stamina and aromatic potential to last for over a hundred years. Attracting the highest scores and auction prices, they are favoured not only by fine wine enthusiasts but also by collectors and investors.
Fonseca 20 Year Old is made from selectedred Ports grown in the best vineyards of the Cima Corgo and DouroSuperior.The wine ages in small oak casks, generallyholding about 630 litres, where there is a relatively small volume of winecompared to the surface area of the vessel, so contact with the wood isproportionately greater. As it matures in cask, Tawny Port graduallyloses the deep red 'ruby' colour of youth and takes on the seductive amberhue known as 'tawny'. At the same time the wine becomes progressively smootherand mellower, its aromas gaining in richness and complexity. Twenty years of ageing has given this winea wonderfully opulent nutty and spicy flavour.
🏅Wine Advocate 92 pts
The NV 20 Year Old Tawny was bottled with a bar top cork in 2013. It comes in at 111.6 grams per liter of residual sugar. A big mouthful, this is a 20 that first coats the palate and then ends with silky texture and concentrated flavor. Very graceful, it is not as impressive in terms of mid-palate density, but it is more than respectable. It shows fine complexity, appropriate to its age category. The finish seals the deal, more lingering and gripping than I expected from the first taste. It is another delicious Tawny from the Taylor Fladgate group this issue, so dig in. All of the Tawnies here have bar top corks. What that typically means is that they are ready to drink and not expected to be aged in the bottle. Barring cork failures, of course, Tawnies are very resistant and can be held a long, long time. They are certainly completely ready to drink now, though
🏅Wine Spectator 93 pts
A touch darker in profile than its peers, with toasted black sesame, caramel, walnutand hazelnut cream notes backed by singed orange peel and ginseng accents. Stays focused thanks to a light bitter almond thread on the finish, giving this a slightly drier feel.
🏅Wine Enthusiast 94 pts
This gorgeous Port is at the perfect stage where there are still freshness and hints of orange and dried fruit, while the wood aging is concentrating the wine into its essence.
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