2005 Fonseca Porto Guimaraens Vintage

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  1/6/2021 - Sebastian80 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dark fruit, tobacco, coffee and toffee. Wonderful complexity. Could perhaps have wished for even more intensity on the nose. But overall incredible value for a vintage port from a non-vintage year.

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  1/3/2019 - Genghis88 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drank over one week.
  
  *Following tasting notes are spot on.
  
  Wine Access 2010
  
  "Peppery, tobacco, black tea, menthol, dried herb, black cherry jam, and dark chocolate aromas with a touch of spirit. Full, round, moderately sweet palate but good acidity with youthful tannins. Lots of licorice, black cherry jam, dried fig, orange, smoky, earthy, black tea, peppery flavours. Good finesse and length, needs 7-10 years to develop."
  
  My only other thought on this bottle is the high alcohol content comes in a little 'hot'. Otherwise an excellent Port to sip over the holidays

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  5/17/2015 - saturnaisland wrote: 94 Points

  Although still young, this is hard to resist now. Rich dark fruit. Very smooth and rounded tannins. A powerful and robust wine but also very elegant. Quite wonderful.

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  7/28/2011 - BrandrB wrote: 89 Points

  Pleasantly surprised – an excellent young vintage port. Dark purple color. Dark black fruit aromas. Full-bodied and powerful palate: blackberries, chocolate, and black pepper. Beautiful medium-long finish. Still well before its true drinking window – this should shine for many more years to come.

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  7/9/2010 - jkoenen wrote: 90 Points

  Fonseca Offline @ Joost B.'s (Netherlands): Wonderfully fruity and primary. Impeccable balance, nice and ripe, not too sweet. Me likey. 17.5/20

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