– Fonseca Tawny Port / 2 bottles

Fonseca Tawny Port from the Douro Valley in Portugal - 2 bottles
20%, 75 cl.

For more than 200 years, Fonseca’s port wines have been among the most sought-after. They can hardly be described better than wine writer James Suckling does: “Fonseca is the Bentley of Vintage Port… Like the famous luxury cars, Fonseca Vintage Ports are thoroughbreds; the result of craftsmanship and skill, but also of passion and creativity.”

In 1815, João dos Santos Fonseca sold his first port wine in Oporto. Just a few years later, he entered into a partnership with Fransisco José Gomes Monteiro, and to gain a foothold in the London market they sent Manoel Pedro Guimaraens there in 1920, where he, among other things, sold the port wines from Fonseca & Monteiro. In 1958, the partnership "Fonseca, Monteiro, Guimaraens & Co" broke up, and in 1863 Manoel’s sons bought the trademark “Fonseca & Co.” from Monteiro’s heir in Oporto. In 1948, after two world wars, the economy had crumbled despite the success of the vintage ports, and "Guimaraens & Son" was acquired by Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman. The two companies are run separately, and in the 1970s Guimaraens first acquired Quinta do Cruzeiro and later Quinta do Panascal and Quinta de Santo to ensure the quality of the grapes for the famous ports. Since 1994, Adrian and Natascha Bridge, daughter of the former director of Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman, have run Guimaraens, which in 2001 changed its name to the "Taylor Fonseca Group" in collaboration with David Guimaraens.

Each spring, Fonseca’s team selects the wines that will be aged as Old Tawny Ports. The casks that are not used for the specially bottled Tawny styles are blended into the standard Tawny.