In bottle for about 40 years. Translucent amber-orange in color with a green tinge on the rim. A fine sediment in the glass. Big nose of citrus and lemons. You can almost taste the acids on the nose. Some very light flavors of burnt sugar. Super, grippy acids. Long on the finish. Tangy, light, elegant, yet powerful. Palate coating. A bit of heat on the finish. The acids might be too intense for some, but I loved it.

Slightly darker than the 1916 Rutherfod and Miles Sercial. Amber, with a greenish rim. A bit denser than the previous wine, but softer and less grip. If I rest and come back t this wine, I can definitely sense the fine acids, but compared to the Rutherford and Miles, this is soft. Some brothy and smokey tea flavors. This has been in wood, demijohn and then bottled for about 6 years.

Dark caramel color, with a green rim. A bit of bottle stink when first opened, but this blew off with several days in the decanter. Chocolate and praline on the nose; some nice old decaying wood scents. Not as sweet as the 1899 Welsh Brothers Terrantez I tried last year (supposedly all these 1899 Terrantez wines come from the same source). While the Welsh Brothers seemed almost Malmsey-like, this was more Terrantez-like, although still a bit softer than I would expect. Some spice and ginger notes. Quite good.

Cloudy, orange-caramel in color, with not much green on the rim. Completely assaults the nose and palate. Great Terrantez bitter nutskin flavors. Seems to be packed with a good deal of dry extract as the wine is quite full. Explosive entry. Superb power with a long, zesty, lime and nutskin finish. Fabulous and memorable.

Very dark in color; almost like cola. Dark brown/orange rim. Lots of caramel and brown spices. Nice balance with just a hint of VA. Good nuttiness and full of youth and vigor, but lacks the WOW factor for me. Others loved it more than me.

Much better than the last time I tried this. Another dark, cola-colored wine. Kalediscopic and intense, almost painful in intensity, which I prize in Madeira. Super long, luscious and extracted, with a fudgy and dried fruit core. Super acids.

This was opened several days before the tasting; decanted and filtered multiple times. Cloudy/muddy in appearance with a tan/orange hue. Lots of bottle stink. Probably in bottle for about 40 years. Very reduced, with a rotten egg scent. Much better on the palate. The acids are sound and the finish admirably long. A bit of "bottle sweetness" emerged and this did get better with air, but for me, it was tough to get over the bottle stink/sweat socks aromas.

Light amber in color. Closed nose, light, elegant wine. Verdelho-like. Some nice cinnamin and clove spices emerge. Very nice, but lacks intensity.

Medium caramel colored. Some VA. Complex, nice bitterness, some brown butter. Really fans out on the finish. Tangy, savory and spicy. Lingering and gorgeous, with an exotic wintergreen note.

Another dark, cola-colered wine with an orange rim. Very powerful and forceful. Rich and sweet, but the acidity is fine. A soul-warming wine.

Some VA, but this is exceedingly rich and long. Really clings to the palate. Something about the nervous energy in this wine really captured me. Nice edginess to it. Fantastic length.

A bit reduced, with a good dose of bottle stink. Strong elements of cream-like desserts here: creme brulee, creme caramel, etc. Melted butter and butterscotch. Unusual and unique. A bit lactic. This wine was transferred from cask to demi-johns in 1950 and bottled in 1987.

It is always a pleasure to taste this wine. While there is some bottle variation with this wine and this was not one of the "best" showings. it was still pretty darn fantastic and one of the wines of the night. This was in cask for 108 years before it was put in demi-johns in 1935. This sample came from a bottle with the "block-like" lettering and was bottled some time before the bottles with the "script-like" lettering, which were bottles in 1989 (and are supposedly better). My notes read "Ridiculous complexity. Ethereal, Weight without weight". Hard to believe this was not a "better" bottling of this wine!

Dark sweet and luscious. Although a bit soft relative to the other Malvazias in the flight, this still had very sound acidity. Great length. My notes are starting to get a bit shorter as the night wears on.

It was nice to revisit this wine, not having had it for some time now. Still a consistant, wonderful wine. Dark cola-colored. Sound acids. Fantastic persistence and intensity. It's hard to belive the D'Oliveira version of the 1875 Malvazia is better. This was bottled in 2000.

Medium caramel in color. Sweet and cedary, with interesting spicy notes. The rich sweetness is in perfect balance with the nervous acids here. I really like the energy and savory edge this wine posseses. Killer. A great way to end the night.

Very good, resolved structure. Elegant and refined, with nice secondary flavors of leather and earth. Still holding on to nice fruit. On the second day I thought I detected a hint of TCA... hard to tell.