Fonseca Vintage Port - 1983 (750ml) Volnay with frightfully high acidity

with frightfully high acidity

creme brulee

The very long

sweet berry and fresh leather on the nose

Fonseca Vintage Port - 1983 (750ml) Volnay with frightfully high acidityFonseca is one of the great port lodges, producing the most exotic and most complex port. If Fonseca lacks the sheer weight and power of a Taylor, Dow or Warre, or the opulent sweetness and intensity of a Graham, it excels in its magnificently complex, intense bouquet of plummy, cedary, spicy fruit and long, broad, expansive flavors. With its lush, seductive character, one might call it the Pomerol of Vintage ports. When it is young, it often loses