Community Tasting Note
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DarinC Likes this wine: 94 points
September 11, 2014 - Drinking a glass of this years ago at Coi in San Francisco really got me intrigued with Madeira. The bottle I finished recently was very similar to that glass. It was consumed periodically over a year while being recorked and stored at 58F.
As other tasters have noted, it has some similarities with a sercial-- the sweetness level and the acidity. There seemed to be more of a woody, earthy, exotic spice element than most sercials and verdelhos in memory, though the differences are subtle. Lots of maple toasted almonds. The cooked apricot and dried blood orange rind, along with the acidity provide some freshness. A lot of interest in this bottle, but it doesn't have that ethereal quality of the 1926 Barbeito verdelho I had earlier this year.
Shows best after a few minutes in the glass to settle down. It should easily age decades longer.2 people found this helpful 5,675 views