Bin 27 Reserve Port Review
Although for connoisseurs and collectors fonseca is synonymous with vintage port to thousands of wine drinkers and port lovers the wine that springs to mind is bin 27.
Bin 27 reserve port review. 27 reserve port doc douro red login and sign up and see review text. This wine however is blended from several vintages to achieve a consistent house style. Few port producers have maintained such consistency of quality and style from vintage to vintage. For the love of port.
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. Tannins are encased in generous red fruits giving a wine that is smooth with just a touch of. In contrast there has been a lowering of demand over the past year priced in the middle range for red wines from reserve ruby port. A fresh more refined look has clearly been in order.
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. Stores and prices for fonseca premium reserve bin 27 port prices stores tasting notes and market data. By roy hersh june 2008 issue 32 nv fonseca reserve ruby port bin 27 subscribe to see review text. The multi vintage cuvée makes it similar to a crusted port but the reserve throws no sediment and can be poured straight without fussing with a decanter.
This is the fifth most popular wine from reserve ruby port. From the legendary 1840 fonseca s first vintage port release to the iconic 1868 and the extraordinary 1927 1948 1977 and 1994 all four of them 100 point wines the house has produced a succession of highly acclaimed wines. This fonseca porto bin no. By stephen tanzer march april 1998 iwc issue 77 see more on vinous nv fonseca vintage character port bin 27 login and.
Nv fonseca bin no. Angel food cake baked pears cheesecake stilton cheese almonds. Onseca s early drinking port is not a late bottled vintage a style invented by rival taylor fladgate but rather a blend of various vintages chosen to express the house s chewy fruit forward style. 27 was created over a century ago for family consumption and only released commercially in 1972.
27 reserve port was reviewed on january 23 2010 by natalie maclean. 88points fonseca nv bin 27 finest reserve port this familiar brand exhibits the lush fonseca style.