A plummy and chocolatey port

Fonseca Unfiltered Late Bottled Vintage Port, Portugal

Matthew Jukes
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Fonseca Unfiltered Late Bottled Vintage Port, Portugal (£11.99, Majestic; Cambridge Wine, 01223-568989; Roberson Wine, 020-7371 2121; Cotswold Port, 01608-650562).

This is an eminently cultured port, with plummy richness and chocolatey concentration in equal measure. If I had to pick one just bottle to toast the NewYear, at any price, this is it. With a little more age than many Late Bottled Vintage ports, it is mellow and smooth, too.

The unfiltered nature of this wine means that it has lost none of its character, but you must take care to decant it, because it has thrown a sediment. You would be well advised to stand the bottle up for a day or two before doing this because the sediment is quite light and powdery.

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Once decanted it will drink well for a week. Value for money, this wine is very, very grown up for £12. Fonseca is one of the top port houses and this is your chance to experience some really thrilling wine at a bargain price.

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy

Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes

Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.  

Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.

He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.

Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’.  He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner. 

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy.  His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.

 

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