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  • Country ranking ?

    133
  • Producer ranking ?

    18
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030

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The Story

Fonseca has belonged to the first rank of Vintage Port producers since the mid-nineteenth century. Fonseca Vintage Ports are noted for their luscious fruitiness which develops great opulence and complexity with age. Wines born of inspired winemaking and a thorough understanding of viticulture and terroir, they appeal, perhaps more than any other house's Vintage Ports, to the enthusiast and connoisseur.

Vintage Ports represent the finest pro...

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Wine Information

The Winter of 1965/6 was very wet, and generally rather warm. The Summer was very hot and dry, the month of May being one of the hottest on record. There was a good berry set in all districts. The vines were very backward till early September when a few days of extremely hot weather brought the fruit on considerably.

The vintage started generally on the 26th September. The grapes were fully ripe and sugar degrees were fairly high, 13o be...

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Vintage 1966

Port Vintage Report: Exceptional quality. Very sweet wines and rich in tannins, some of them sublime, with large aging capacity. Almost all producers declared production. Normal winter, with some rain, but afterwards the weather became dry between April and September. Grapes with a high sugar level, some of them burned. It only rained slightly at the beginning of the harvest (end of September). Scarce production.

Declared by most of the maj...

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Origin

Vila Nova de Gaia, Douro

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Average

Fake factory

None

Glass time

2h
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