1845 Cossart Gordon & Co. Madeira Bual Solera Centenary

Community Tasting Notes (6) Median Score: 93 points

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  9/11/2015 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points

  Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze event; 9/11/2015-9/12/2015 (Capella Hotel Georgetown): This has been decanted for a week. It is rather gentle, kinder and gentler kind of Madeira. Dry figs, roasted nuts and caramel. Good balance, warm and round, very controlled acidity and medium finish for a Madeira which means pretty decent length. Pretty enjoyable but overshadowed by the 1875 Barbeito.

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  6/5/2010 - stevetimko wrote:

  Interesting wine. There was a blast of acidic flavors on the attack and then it seemed to immediately jump to a sweet, lingering finish. Like a two-minute finish. On the nose, it was burnt sugar and lemon and you smelled it in all of your nasal cavity. When you sip it you get that zing of acid on the attack along with fig and Vermont maple syrup. Then a lingering finish. The flavors are a sweeter brown sugar and a more generic black fruit. Quite interesting experience and a nice match with the chocolate souffle with chocolate ganache..

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  1/29/2005 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points

  HDH Pre-Auction Tasting (Chicago IL): Wine tasting. Exciting and lingering aromas and flavors of dates and caramel. Long and exotic.

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  5/19/2004 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 81 Points

  Golden brown. Quite alcoholic on the nose with underlying hints of figs, rotten apples and plums. In the mouth the wine was nice and sweet, although a bit heavy for my taste with a somewhat lean character. The sweetness seemed to be from residual sugar more so than from that of mature grapes. Dominated a bit too much by alcohol. This wine has lost its fruit and in that sense, its vinousity. An interesting experience, though.

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  7/6/2001 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 Points

  A Madeira Tasting at Madeira Wine Company (Funchal): Bottled 1989. Deep and intense colour; warm and fragrant Bual nose, nuts and vanilla; velvety, medium-sweet, beautifully rounded and layered, good weight, well-built, not extremely concentrated but very attractive and elegant, beautifully integrated acidity.

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