David Peifer

9.2

It’s been laid down in the cellar for a LONG time. Velvet smooth wonderful port in every way!! — a month ago

Pablo Cetlinski

9.6

If wine is bottled poetry, then this is the bottle. — 5 years ago

Paul Richardson

9.2

Baked apple aromas up front with some slight vanilla, leading to flavours of green apple and pear (no malolactic here!). Lingering citrus at the end, works great with steamed clams. — 7 years ago

Robert Evans Jr

9.3

Sweet Clean Crisp Honey suckle Green Apple — 8 years ago

with Nicole

David Griffiths

9.0

Great value. Smooth/soft. Jammy. Dark fruit. Hint of chocolate on the finish. Works well with a variety of food. Serves well to a crowd with diverse tastes. — 9 years ago

with Stephanie

Chris Murray

9.5

Delicious. Dark, syrupy but fruity. — 10 years ago

Will Beshears

8.9

Silky, moderate flavor but ultimately complex — 10 years ago

Kurt Krueger

9.0

Excellent port, very much a treat! — 4 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

NV / Port on an august evening with the cheese… it works 😏 — 5 years ago

Matti Jokelainen

9.0

Picked this up from local Alko as my Kopkes ended up lost somewhere on their way. This has quite broad array of licorice, smoke, oak and various red and dark berries flowing through both nose and palate. It's quite dense but manages to stay away from being cloying. Taste ends eith nutty and raspberry notes. This works great with various chocolate desserts when slightly cooled to freshen up the mouthfeel. We had this with chocolate cheese cake that ended our Christmas dinner. — 6 years ago

Richard Lewis

9.2

Nose of apple and cherry, white cherry and apricot on the palate with a finish of vanilla and hazelnut liqueur. Sweetness cut by the acid. — 9 years ago

with Lynne

Giammichele Grieco

8.9

Excellent with chocolate — 9 years ago

Kevin Neely

9.5

This pet has a great dessertif aspect to it, with actual alcohol, rather than just sweet ruby port notes. Delicious and a great pairing port. — 10 years ago

Brett Rogosin

9.0

Solid wine for post meal with a good amount of sweetness that works very well with desert. It's your Port alternative, but not a port. — 10 years ago

Will Stanley

9.4

A spectacular wine, bursting from the glass and fully clearing out my slightly blocked nasal passages this weekend with gorgeous aromas of black fruit - deep but oh-so-fresh - along with kirsch liqueur, cranberry, a hint of mint and cedar. Truth be told, it has a character reminiscent of the Médoc, and I later read it has a small amount of Cabernet in the blend.

The palate is a show-stopper, sporting an array of very ripe but fresh blackcurrant, freshly squeezed cherries, and blueberry. It’s robust, but very harmonious with an abundance of acidity and tannin. It has an almost Port-like density, but it works. Sublime stuff. Why, oh why, did I only buy two bottles of this? It was £6 in bond, released by the winery last year under peculiar circumstances that I can’t remember. I should’ve bought a truck-load.
— 4 years ago

Adriana Fabbro

9.3

Everything about this wine screams uncool in our industry in the present era: high alcohol (14%), heavy extraction, generous use of new oak (presumably), ripe + chewy tannins, flavors that shout rather than whisper and high praise from Robert Parker (cue Elaine or Carlton Banks’ dance moves). Maybe it’s my 90’s nostalgia or maybe I’ve been drinking too much vintage port these days 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it all works beautifully here: intense aromas of licorice, pepper, cedar, black plum, wet tar, dried tobacco, cranberries, cassis, dried violets. And this is only the beginning... A blast of macerated red and black berries on the palate, held together by a solid acid backbone, followed by a long finish laced with black olive, dried tobacco, mocha and mineral. Hedonistic. Three cheers for Alicante Bouschet! — 5 years ago

Steve Hahn

9.2

Lovely. A bit of light fruit with the complex nut tones in the middle and late. Vanilla, walnut and pecan. Balanced and well thought out.
— 9 years ago

Martin Bergo

8.9

Figs, raisins, candy, cream, acids, walnuts; this tawny port works great with gingersnaps and stilton cheese. Spends many years in 630-litre oak casks in cellars of this port producer of 428 years. — 10 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.4

Birth year for Lisa, an elegant Vintage Port of profound character, freshness and excellent mouthfeel as the tannin has mellowed to a silky and fine texture. A ruby core and rose colored edges. Dried flowers and citrus peel, with dried blueberry, cassis and subtle spice notes. Port is always so powerful, but this is a great version for me to try an older Port that works more off complexity and elegance as opposed to pure power. #fonseca #porto — 10 years ago

Justin Crow

Cellar Door Manager Montalto

9.1

Vale Mornington Peninsula Petite Syrah
Cool-climate Durif?!!? Conventional wisdom says it just shouldn't work. Aromas of blackberries, dark plums, leather and spice. The palate is chock full of ripe black fruits and supple ripe tannins. While it has body, it doesn't pack the alcohol heat normally found in Aussie Durif. In a few words, in this case, it just works! — 10 years ago