Bin 27 Porto
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Bin 27 porto. The awards the awards. This wine however is blended from several vintages to achieve a consistent house style. We should all drink more port as it s one of the world s most iconic wine styles and bin 27 is made by the swaggering talent that is fonseca. Fl tarpon springs.
Bin 27 port is the wine that springs to mind to thousands of wine drinkers and port wine lovers. Following the custom of naming fonseca s crusted ports using bin numbers such as bin 740 or bin 82 vg alistair robertson fonseca s chairman decided to call the new blend bin 27 in a revival of this tradition in 1972 when the project came to fruition. Fonseca porto bin no. Go to shop b 21.
Dark fruit black pepper cinnamon and nutmeg on the nose. To thousands of wine drinkers and port lovers bin 27 is the wine that springs to mind. Fermentation is halted by the addition of grape spirits before all the residual sugar has been fermented creating a sweet fortified wine. A ruby style porto blended from reserve wines selected for their intense depth of color and fruit character bin 27 is aged for four years in neutral wood vats before bottling.
Fonseca bin 27 porto 750ml portugal 16 99. A core of purple plum and. It is produced primarily from wines from fonseca s own quintas in the cima corgo and thus shows an exceptional quality and consistency from year to year. Like all youthful red ports bin 27 is an excellent match for soft ripe cheeses and can be served on its own at the end of the meal or any other relaxed occasion in a generously proportioned wine glass.
Like graham s six grapes and sandeman s founders reserve fonseca bin 27 is a widely available and top selling ruby port wine with wide availability produced by one of portugal s most notable producers we last encountered bin 27 in an informal review with taylor fladgate group ceo adrian bridge way back in 2012. From the iconic fonseca port house. Bin 27 is a reserve port made using the same approach to making a late bottled vintage with extended wood ageing making the wine ready to drink upon its release.