2015 Alexandre d'Almeida Buçaco Branco Reservado

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  2/24/2021 - Zweder wrote:

  The bouquet is still locked. On the palate anise, vanilla, spices, some bitterness and nicely dry. no score.

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  11/29/2020 - plinymajor Likes this wine: 92 Points

  When visiting the Buçaco Palace Hotel in summer 2018 and having dined over there, I was delighted with their "house wines" both white and read. House wine is really an underestimating denomination for what these exceptional wines are.
  You can have a gastronomical 7 courses dinner in the restaurant for €90 and for a really ridiculous extra €20, you get with each course a glass of a different recent Buçaco vintage (except for the sparkler and the port at the beginning and end of the meal).
  We had the 2010 and 2014 whites and the 2013 red.
  
  This 2015, which I didn't taste then, was for sale at €30. Here in Belgium, it goes for twice that price.
  
  Colour: intense straw yellow
  Nose: mix of apple, lemon, more exotic fruits like pineapple, hazelnuts, quite intense oak butter and vanilla
  Mouth: buttery mouthfeel countered by intense acidity, retronasal fruit, very intense flavours and great length.
  
  This is a serious, high quality wine but for the moment, its still too young and too oak driven for my taste. For the moment, it appears more like an impressive Californian Chardonnay than the 2014 which really brought me in the high end appellations of the Côte de Beaune.
  
  Knowing that these wines can last multiple decades (oldest wine on the restaurant list was a 1944 white, for a humble €1500, followed by a 1945 red!), I'll let my other bottles rest for, er... many years...

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  2/9/2019 - Zweder wrote: 91 Points

  UWS; early spring dinner (@ CdW and KvdK): Special. Dry, complex and some slightly nutty impressions.

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