1997 Fonseca Vintage Port

[Stewart T.]

Medium dark purple in color. Violets and great primary fruit! Great balance of acidity and tannins. Expansive palate - like biting a plum. 93 points. 10/4/2007

[Alan Gardner]

This note is extracted from a Blind Tasting on 29 May 2009 of 6 wines. The tasting compared Taylor, Fonseca Warre’s 1994 and 1997 vintages. All came from the same cellar and were decanted about 2 hours before the tasting. The tasting notes are mine, but there was also a group ranking (9 tasters).
No specific notes on colour, as all were similar – deep ruby (although the 94’s were slightly deeper in colour than the 97’s).

1997 Fonseca (poured as wine F)
Touch of orange on the rim – showing some age.
Nose almost overripe fruit.
Palate unbalanced. Dry start, then falls away in the centre, leading to a soft fleshy finish. Not sure where this is going.
My ranking 5th. Group ranking 5th.