Fonseca
- Tracked vintages
- 26
- Community notes
- 113
- Merchant offers
- 54
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002017 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 100113 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £36per 75 cl2017 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- Drinking window
- 2027–2080hold2017 vintage
Flavour and structure
An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.
Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet.
- Body5.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness4.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Spice · black licorice
- Dried fruit · fig, raisin
- Oak · dark chocolate
- Black fruit · blackberry jam, cassis
Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.
1963One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2017
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 201796£36 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 201696£79 / 75cl3000 ml in-bond trade, April 2024
- 201198£45 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- 200993
- 200794£48 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
- 200396£47 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
- 200095£54 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2021
- 199792£44 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
- 199499£106 / 75cl10-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
- 199296£65 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2019
- 198594£50 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 197797£167 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
- 197096£127 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
- 196693
- 196397£325 / 75cl9-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Holdits window has not opened
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Best scored
- 1994
- 99 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 1994
- peak, window 2002–2035
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £36 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | £36 | 96 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2016 | £79 | 96.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, April 2024 |
| 2011 | £45 | 97.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025 |
| 2007 | £48 | 93.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017 |
| 2003 | £47 | 96 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020 |
| 2000 | £54 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2021 |
| 1997 | £44 | 92.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019 |
| 1994 | £106 | 98.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 10-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023 |
| 1992 | £65 | 95.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2019 |
| 1985 | £50 | 94 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 1977 | £167 | 96.5 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023 |
| 1970 | £127 | 95.5 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017 |
| 1963 | £325 | 97.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 9-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023 |
Where to go next
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