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White - Fortified
N.V. Blandy's Madeira Malmsey 5 Years Old
Malmsey
- Portugal
- Madeira
Label borrowed from 2015
Community Tasting Notes 42
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Henman Likes this wine: 91 points
November 3, 2023 - From a 375ml bottle. On the nose orange peel, dried fruit, rancio and smoky/roasted notes. Full bodied, sweet and rich, showing orange peel, dried fruit, slightly nutty, rancio and smoky notes with firm balancing acidity. A very solid and good sweet madeira.
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lake.vino Likes this wine: 88 points
February 14, 2023 - Competent entry level madeira. Lacks the subtlty and complexity of vintage juice - and of course, also the price tag. Nose is salty caramel, cocoa, walnuts and dried fruits. Palate is rich and sweet, vanilla and oak notes strong here. Citrus there too. Not blown away - but that's not the point here.
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platpeeps Likes this wine: 89 points
December 20, 2022 - A really complex flavour profile of figs, caramel, a little bitter marmalade, chocolate, toffee, cream and demerara sugar. Spicy, sweet and unctuous with a fine length of finish. Perhaps a little more definition and lift were needed to make this even better. CHP 89 pts
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AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 88 points
January 9, 2022 - Orange jam, banana bread, gingerbread. Whatever fruit notes there are here; they seem to be baked into bread. Also molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon and a very interesting cooked meat note. It reminds me of spiced rum. Full bodied with a pronounced intensity of both flavors and aromas.
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Butzemann wrote: 87 points
October 23, 2021 - Bottle is open for a week, brown colour, smells of almonds, raisins and smoke, light body, not overly sweet, in the mouth raisins and smoke, a little hot/spirituous, in the aftertaste raisins, a little bit of smoke and acidity, good length (30+ sec), nice Madeira, but nothing special.
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By Richard Jennings
5/7/2013 (link) 92 points(NV Blandy's Madeira Malmsey 5 Years Old) Medium dark brown color with ruby lights; walnut, dates, Brazil nut nose; tasty, oily textured, dried fig, coffee, dried apricot, smoky, honey, coffee cake palate; long finish (19% alcohol; sample provided by winery)
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By Richard Jennings
10/11/2011 (link) 84 points(NV Blandy's Madeira Malmsey 5 Years Old) Medium brown color with 1 millimeter clear meniscus; fig pudding, fruit cake, sweet coffee nose; sweet, fig, fig pudding palate with low acidity; medium-plus finish
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By Richard Jennings
3/17/2006 (link) 89 points(NV Blandy's Madeira Malmsey 5 Years Old) Vanilla cake nose; sweet vanilla, caramel palate; medium finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage N.V.
- Type White - Fortified
- Producer Blandy's
- Varietal Malmsey
- Designation 5 Years Old
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Portugal
- Region Madeira
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Madeira
- UPC Codes 094799050025, 094799050032, 5010867600065, 5601629151101
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 1 (0%)
- In Cellars 209 (50%)
- Consumed 205 (49%)
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