Community Tasting Note

mdefreitas wrote:

Monday, February 28, 2011 - Barbeito Madeiras: The 65th Anniversary Celebration (The Modern, NYC): Sourced from the Afonso family in Cama do Lobos. I remember this wine being sold in 2005 with a sibling bottling from the 1885 vintage. They were both bottled in 2002; the 1886 was bottled from demijohn while the 1885 was still in cask. I often thought that a side by side tasting of these two vintages would someday make for an educational comparison of glass vs wood. For being in demijohn, this wine did not lack for concentration. Bittersweet cocoa powder, butterscotch and burnt sugar. Weighty and tangy on the palate yet ethereal and weightless on the finish. A beautiful wine that really invites another sip.

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