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• mdefreitas wrote: 94 points

  February 28, 2011 - Barbeito Madeiras: The 65th Anniversary Celebration (The Modern, NYC): Sourced from the Favilla Viera family from vineyards in Sao Martinho. Perceptible sweetness yet relatively dry for a Malvasia. Chestnuts, walnuts, caramel and fruitcake. I last tasted this wine in 1999, as an earlier bottling. One would think that the extra years in cask for this newer bottling would sweeten this wine through evaporation. But if my memory serves, this seems more dry, nervy and edgy than the previous bottling; perhaps my memory is off? Regardless, this wine remains a wonderfully balanced, lengthy and extremely satisfying Madeira. Fantastic.

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