Fonseca Unfiltered Late Bottled Vintage 2019

Fonseca Unfiltered Late Bottled Vintage Port, 2019

Grapes: A blend of Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional and Tinta Barroca

Producer Tasting Note:

A wonderfully exuberant, perfumed, full, aromatic nose. Luscious, ripe, black cherry and plum fruit with notes of cedar and spice. The wine is wonderfully rich, rounded and concentrated on the palate, with layers of redcurrant and blackcurrant berry flavours, spice, a hint of Ceylon tea and marked freshness. An elegant wine with good complexity. Lovely, intense finish full of flavour.

This superb Late Bottled Vintage port is aged to full maturity in oak vats where it gradually matures and falls bright. It is then drown off into battle with no fining or filtration. As a result the wine loses none of its richness and concentration and preserves all of its natural fullness, body and flavour. As the wine is not filtered a haze or light sediment may form after a year or two, or if the wine is subjected to the cold. This is a natural process and is quite normal. If it occurs, the wine will benefit from being decanted.

Fonseca Unfiltered gives all the benefits and feel of a Vintage Port at a more accessible price, this is great value. Excellent with fully flavoured cheeses, especially blue cheeses such as Stilton or Roquefort. It is also delicious with desserts made with chocolate or berry fruits.