Amazing wine, on the level of some of the best old Madeiras I've had, and with a very similar flavour profile. An array of flavour here, ranging from sweeter fig, caramel, and fruitcake type notes to roasted hazelnuts, smoke, and herbal elements. It's incredibly complex and layered, moderately sweet on the palate but with a surprisingly savoury and almost saline finish, and a wine with impeccable balance. Thanks Pat.
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Pale and amber colour. Elegant smells of walnut and hazelnut, orange fruit, cake spice. The flavours are intense with coffee, walnut, toffee and lots of sweetness but there's also an extraordinarily citrus lift of oranges and lemons which gives the wine a wonderful freshness. Remarkable given its age, wonderful stuff.
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Deep and youtful bouquet of dried figs with notes of cognac and lovely hint of chanterelles. Long and persistent in the mouth. Bottled in 2013. Benjamin Button of a wine.
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4/1/2018 - prof b wrote: 95 Points
A truly lovely wine. It reminded me quite a bit of Madeira though without as much acid. Figs, caramel, and roasted nuts. Really lovely.
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3/31/2018 - salil wrote: 96 Points
Amazing wine, on the level of some of the best old Madeiras I've had, and with a very similar flavour profile. An array of flavour here, ranging from sweeter fig, caramel, and fruitcake type notes to roasted hazelnuts, smoke, and herbal elements. It's incredibly complex and layered, moderately sweet on the palate but with a surprisingly savoury and almost saline finish, and a wine with impeccable balance. Thanks Pat.
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12/10/2017 - kfk Likes this wine: 90 Points
really great, nutty, raisiny. madeira like. still has long life ahead of it.
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2/4/2017 - bacchus of knockholt Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pale and amber colour. Elegant smells of walnut and hazelnut, orange fruit, cake spice. The flavours are intense with coffee, walnut, toffee and lots of sweetness but there's also an extraordinarily citrus lift of oranges and lemons which gives the wine a wonderful freshness. Remarkable given its age, wonderful stuff.
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8/7/2016 - AV2012 wrote: 92 Points
Deep and youtful bouquet of dried figs with notes of cognac and lovely hint of chanterelles. Long and persistent in the mouth. Bottled in 2013. Benjamin Button of a wine.
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