1987 Fonseca Guimareans Vintage Port

[Frederick Blais]

Fonseca Guimaraens 1987: Fairly deep ruby/grimson color turning tawny on the edge. The nose is quite open right after opening the bottle evolving from fresh field berries to licorice, ripe plums, dried figs and that sweet floral touch that makes me like so much Fonseca. On the palate, the wine is perfectly balanced, smooth, very sweet with low acidity. Flavours of fresh berries, dried figs, some toffey and licorice and the finale of medium lenght is all on fruits and licorice showing little tannins. 17/20

There is everything you want in that mature for my taste port where the tannins are integrated and some young fruits flavours are still showing. For 67$ can, it is a fair price considering the market for that quality for a 20 years old VP.

If I see more bottles, I'll definitively buy more. I did prefer this Fonseca to the 80 and 91 Graham's from the previous VT session and it is much cheaper!

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