A bottle not required for the Fonseca vertical so consumed.
This tasting note take on night 3 when it is at its most harmonious.
A deep inky wine 95% opaque with a reddish-purple rim.
Plummy nose, richly and sweetly fruited - a summer fruit coulis on vanilla ice cream. Cassia bark.
Very sweet palate with roasted SA plums and raspberry jam and invigorating tannins, chocolate, tea, almost mint to finish. Tea tree oil?
‘Tres porto’.
Two decades too young for perfection.