Douro

Fonseca 1994

Standard (750ml) · 1 bottle · Upper Shoulder (US)

Offered by cellarcollector42 · new seller

RedFortifiedTorn LabelHeavily Stained LabelCorroded Capsule

Current bid

£158.00

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Fee breakdown

Hammer price: £168.00
Buyer's premium (5% + £2.50): £10.90
You pay: £178.90

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The bottle

What the seller has recorded about this particular lot, and what nobody has.

Condition

4 of 4 parts assessed by the seller

Upper Shoulder (US)

Band 4 of 11 on the Encave Bordeaux-shouldered scale v1, where band 1 is into the neck. Band rows in this diagram are evenly spaced and are not to scale.

Houses that publish age guidance call this normal for bottles 20 years or older (Tennants, Langton's). This bottle is about 32 years old.

Fill level cannot tell you how the bottle was stored. One hot shipment can cost more fill than thirty years of cellaring.

Diagrammatic — band rows are evenly spaced, not to scale. Encave Bordeaux-shouldered scale v1. recorded by the seller with the bottle in hand, on or before 11 October 2026

LabelMajor defectsTorn LabelHeavily Stained Labelphoto supplied

CapsuleMinor defectsCorroded Capsulephoto supplied

CorkDepressedphoto supplied

PackagingNot stated

Label original?Original label

In the seller's words

Thirty-two years old and it shows: upper shoulder, label torn across the lower third and heavily stained, capsule corroded at the lip, cork depressed. Sold as a drinking bottle, not an investment one.

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Wine details

Producer: Fonseca
Vintage: 1994
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Colour: Red
Style: Fortified
Classification: —
ABV: —
Bottle format: Standard (750ml)
Volume: 750ml
Quantity: 1 bottle
Fill level: Upper Shoulder (US)
Packaging: Not stated

The wine

What it has been worth

Encave's own record for this wine, and the wider market around it.

The seller

Who you are buying from

Private seller

The seller has declared that they are not selling in the course of a business.

This is the seller's own statement about themself. Encave does not verify it.
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 duties on traders do not apply to a sale between two private individuals, and neither do the unfair trading rules on misleading actions and omissions.
A private seller is still not free to misdescribe a lot. Goods sold by description must correspond with that description under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (s.13), which binds private sellers; the satisfactory quality and fitness duties in s.14 do not, because they apply only where goods are sold in the course of a business.
A false statement of fact that induced the purchase may also be actionable as a misrepresentation.

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22 Oct 2026, 09:15Listing published