1973 D'Oliveiras Madeira Verdelho Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  5/30/2021 - Matthesen Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Mahogany color (Like may d'Oliveiras)
  Pretty nose with spices, some VA, coffee, and roasted nuts.
  Palate just is less interesting, and frankly a bit simple. Not bad, but frankly not great. The 1966 is dramatically better so similar age range.

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  8/15/2019 - SLB83 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This bottle was bottled in 2013.
  My first serious Madeira experience, so I was very curious about this and I was not disappointed.
  The colour quite brownish, like iodine. Some tears in the glass, not overly so.
  On the nose you can really smell the wood and that this has aged. Despite its age, still a fresh nose with hints of apple and raisins.
  On the palate this was just amazing. A burst of freshness and nutty yet fruity flavours. Very much like a well aged colheita/tawny port, but with a fresh dry sherry twist. The aftertaste just lingered on and on.
  We tried this with a variety of cheeses, including Brie de Meaux, Garstang Blue and Stilton. Some with a tea spoon of apple chutney on top. Brilliant combination. See if you can get (or why not make?) a chutney that does not have too much onion or pepper. Ours did have some, but it was still good.
  We also had it with pecan and walnuts, which also worked very well.
  Not sure if this would improve with bottle age, but let’s say I don’t think it will deteriorate much over the next decade.
  Apparently you can have a bottle of an aged Madeira open for months, or even a year some say. All I can tell you is that our bottle was finished over the course of 5 days and, besides the first hour or two after opening, it did not change.
  I will definitely seek out more aged Madeira, which I think is undervalued compared to aged tawny/colheita ports.

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  4/21/2018 - Millennial Drinkers wrote: 88 Points

  Last wine on the Spanish and Dessert wines table at the Third Annual Oakton Wine Shop Bucket List Tasting. Light tawny brown in appearance. Quite nutty on the nose with some marzipan, a little honeyed and bits of spices. Well balanced but a little flat. A bit of leather, nuttiness and plums on the palate. Medium length finish.

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  4/17/2016 - GeorgeSW wrote: 92 Points

  Wow, everyone enjoyed this, aged very well, wish I had another bottle

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  4/14/2014 - stubbie999 Likes this wine:

  Yes, this. Complicated, bight acidity, citrus, yadda, yadda, yadda - goes on forever. All you need is a glass and a quiet corner to sit, smell and sip; that said, if you happen to have some orange/cardamom/lemongrass cupcakes laying around, they might be a really inspired pairing. Just sayin'.

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