For The Love Of Port

Today i got the first info on the Crusted port for the 200 year anniversary of Fonseca. It was bottled in 2008 and unfiltered ofcourse.
Here the picture:

Tasting notes (not mine):
Deep, dark ruby colour. On the nose
powerful aromatic aromas of dark berry
fruit, raspberry leaf, redcurrants and a
hint of mint. On the palate layers of
complex flavours, redcurrant, raspberry,
eucalyptus, balanced tannins and spice.
Very elegant wine, with a long finish

Retail price probably around 20 euro. They advise it to not cellar it more than 5 years. Release in June. What are you guys thoughts?

Nice job on the label and capsule.

It appears this is just a standard Crusted from them with a fancy label. Though, as mentioned, I do like the label and capsule design.

Andy Velebil wrote:It appears this is just a standard Crusted from them with a fancy label. Though, as mentioned, I do like the label and capsule design.

True. But Fonseca crusted port is not for available in the Netherlands, so that is nice. They are sending me a tasting bottle, so i will write some tasting notes soon.

I like the design also. The statement "They advise it to not cellar it more than 5 years" seems very odd for an unfiltered crusted port, as I would have expected that it would improve significantly with much longer aging; is that advice on the label?

Phil W wrote:I like the design also. The statement "They advise it to not cellar it more than 5 years" seems very odd for an unfiltered crusted port, as I would have expected that it would improve significantly with much longer aging; is that advice on the label?

As this was the old-days "Poor man's VP", and to which LBV has largely replaced now-a-days, probably safe to assume most people aren't going to age this a long time anyways. One can probably assume that's just the standard statement for the masses. Us Port nerds on the other hand will probably just ignore that statement.

Ok, so they send us a bottle.
We decanted it for 3 hours (was enough).

Tasting notes:
Nice deep red ruby color. I had a really nice scent, of dark fruit. The taste was actually pretty good, nice strong dark fruit flavors and well balanced. Not a vintage port, but still pretty close. For the money you get a good elegant port!
So i had more than 1 glass.

Nice to hear this tasted OK, just had a case of 6 delivered.

Jasper A. wrote:Ok, so they send us a bottle.
We decanted it for 3 hours (was enough).

Tasting notes:
Nice deep red ruby color. I had a really nice scent, of dark fruit. The taste was actually pretty good, nice strong dark fruit flavors and well balanced. Not a vintage port, but still pretty close. For the money you get a good elegant port!
So i had more than 1 glass.

I split this TN out into it's own thread in the TNDB so people can easily find it later. Thanks for letting us know how it was...and good call on the extra glasses