NV Henriques & Henriques Madeira Finest Full Rich, 5 years old

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89 points

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  2/6/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 Points

  New bottle. Same taste.
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  same bottle. March 9. Syrupy. Broken with Montgomery's clothbound. The meeting was walnut garland and nixon. Drenched with fluid orchard blossom glycerin. Acid is buried. Sercial freeks need to move on. Or add tonic and lime, lol.
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  same bottle. April 30 (chasing Valdespino Isabela,) absorbing a common sticky block of Colston Bassett. Rain/petrichor travels through the core. The torus of texture that surrounds that is sotolon/fenugreek oriented. As the winter hotel season closes, this pour suddenly seems more palatable, more freshly flavored and textured.

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  1/31/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 Points

  NOSE: Ocean-side hot asphalt. Walnuts. Coconut shavings toasted brown. Cocoa butter. MOUTH: green raisins, cardamom, nutmeg, bitter licorice oil, duck bacon, purslane, prickly pear, deglet nour dates, and Japanese whetstone. Quite sweet and racy. Acidity is punctual and in service—it doesn’t want any drama. Purple berries and pruneaux liqueur haunt a concise, useful finish.

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  10/13/2021 - PSPatrick wrote: 87 Points

  Tasting Training for WSET Level 4, Units D4 + D5 - Session 6 (Madeira, non-blind): Wine 6: The wine has a medium brown colour. The intensity of aromas is medium. Aromas are mostly tertiary and include raisin, walnut, hazelnut, coffee, caramel and toffee.
  
  On the palate the wine is sweet, with medium(+) acidity, high alcohol and a medium body. The flavour intensity is medium, flavours are mostly tertiary and include walnut, coffee, toffee, caramel, burned sugar and honey. The finish has medium length. The wine's texture is lightly creamy, the alcohol is lightly warming.
  
  This is a good quality wine since it shows medium complexity, has a smooth, creamy texture, and has medium length. To be considered being of very good quality the wine would need greater complexity and greater length.
  
  This wine is ready to drink. It will keep for a number of years thanks to its good acidity and high levels of sugar and alcohol, but it was bottled mature and will not benefit from additional ageing and is hence not suitable for further ageing in bottle.

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