Description
The 2012 Late Bottled Vintage Port is an unfiltered field blend and comes in with 105 grams of residual sugar. It was bottled with a bar-top cork after five years in used French oak. Sexy but elegant, this is chock-full of delicious fruit, sweet on the end and relatively fresh.
The mid-palate is just average in depth, but the classic Port flavors are all up front. In its youth, it does have a bit of an exuberant feel despite the freshness. Generally, people don’t age LBVs with bar-top corks, but this can hold, if there no cork failure, and develop a bit too.
It has the opulent character of a Fonseca Port, enhanced by the fine vintage. Rich and full in the mouth, the wine’s stewed blackberry and sweet plum flavors, both underlined by tannins, are sure to age well.
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