Fonseca

Specification

Producer

Fonseca

Region

Rest of world

Where

Vila Nova de Gaia, Douro, Portugal

Classification

Vintage Port

Grapes

Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and other Douro varieties

Vintage

1983

Case

12 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

FONSEC8312X75

About this wine

Fonseca Vintage Port is made only in declared years, from the best lots of the house's Douro quintas and long-standing growers. It is known for a rich, opulent and exuberantly fruity style, with deep colour, black fruit, chocolate and spice over firm tannins. Like all great Vintage Ports it needs decades to show its best, and fine years remain vigorous after half a century.

About Fonseca

Fonseca is one of the great houses of Vintage Port, associated since the nineteenth century with the Guimaraens family, who still lead its winemaking. Today it belongs to The Fladgate Partnership, alongside Taylor's, sharing its approach to quality and long-term ageing.

Fonseca's Vintage Ports are built on the house's quintas in the Douro, notably Panascal, Cruzeiro and Santo António, with grapes still trodden by foot in granite lagares. The house style is rich, opulent and generously fruity, and its vintages are prized for their longevity as well as their exuberance.