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Fonseca - Quinta do Panascal - Vintage port 2004
Tasting notes
A fat, plumb, luscious wine. Full of rounded, ripe jammy fruit aromas. Almost warm "marmalade" like note to the nose. The ripeness and richness of fruit is reinforced in the mouth with flavours of plumb, bursting plums and cherries. Great notes of tobacco, smoky tea (lapsang!) and spice. A warm, velvety, satiny wine. An enticingly very textural wine!
Background Information
Quinta do Panascal has been part of the Fonseca portfolio of estates since 1978. The property had, however, been supplying wine to Fonseca for a number of years before its acquisition.
The Quinta is a substantial
Grade A property located in the heart of the Travora valley, in the Cima Corgo region of the Douro.
Quinta do Panascal undertook an ambitious planting programme from 1987-1995 and is now one of the largest Quintas in the Douro valley producing top quality port. It was also the first Quinta open to members of the public in 1992.
A Quinta de Panascal Vintage port is produced only when a general Fonseca declaration is not made, as this wine forms the backbone of a Fonseca Vintage port blend. The decision to bottle a Quinta de Panascal vintage is taken when the wine judged to be of exceptional quality. Like a Fonseca vintage port the wine spends two years ageing in wooden casks before being bottled. However, the wine is not released
immediately after it is bottled but left to mature in Fonseca's cellars in Villa Nova de Gaia until it is ready for drinking; normally 10 years after the harvest.
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