Fonseca 2000 Vintage Port

Fonseca 2000 Vintage Port

Producer Tasting Note:

Inky purple colour. Complete nose, with impressive depth and background, displaying the concentrated and opulent fruitiness which is the hallmark of the Fonseca style. Rich blackcurrant and plum aromas overlaid with spicy and floral notes. Full bodied and velvety on the palate, with ripe chewy tannins providing firm grip to support the long fruity finish.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"The millennial Fonseca is still a young pup. It has a rich blackberry, cassis and liquorice-scented nose with a touch of saddle-leather, fruitcake and earth. The palate has a sensuous entry, beautifully integrated tannins, seamless and caressing with blackberry, black olive compote, fig and a touch of damson jam. Lovely sense of natural balance and poise but yet to shed its puppy fat. Quintessenital Fonseca really." Drink 2020-2050+

95/100 points, Neal Martin, May 2009

"Sweet and lush with ripe, smooth blackberry fruit. Very sweet, bold and rich with good intensity and some fine, mineral, spicy notes under the fruit. Interesting stuff."

95/100 points, Jamie Goode (Comparative tasting at the "2009 Vintage Declaration")