Community Tasting Note

rosesandthorns wrote:

Monday, May 2, 2011 - This is a bad boy bual. Nose was like dark Turkish coffee, with this earthy green twig thing going on. Coffee, rich with toasty candied dark walnut toffee cake, soaked in some brandy and more coffee fudge. Incredible intensity in flavor, with gorgeous lighter toffee, valencia orange marmalade, a little lemon curd, candied almonds, coffee, that was very rich but not overbearing, thanks to the bracing acidity. The flavors stayed with me – great length and finish a mile down the road, up the hill, around the bed, all the way home. Impressive.
You’d think the 1920 would have unwound more, but this wine is very closed unless you decant for a few days. Not just open the bottle and cover with cheesecloth, but decant. Flavor profile very different than one of my all time favorites, the 1920 D’Oliveira Bual, see tasting note, but this was super special and a stunner. This wine was perfectly dressed, coiffed and accessorized with enough quirkiness to raise it’s cache in making it both seductive and approachable - not an easy feat.

Michael Alberty at Storyteller Wines in PDX poured this as the super pour this last Friday. Kudos to him for opening this special bottle and educating people about Madeira.

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