The Rare Wine Company and Vinhos Barbeito Madeira Tasting (celebrating a 20 year partnership): This was the first wine in the tasting that showed marked torrefaction. Browner notes here with fudge, caramel, coffee and autumnal spices. A deep wine with breadth of flavors: tobacco leaf, smoke, burnt sugar and lemon zest. A hint of volatile acidity - but not crossing the line to “varnish”. A lovely wine for a cold winter’s night.
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Nice ending to a Christmas dinner. Very hot when initially poured, this needed a little air to mellow. Thin and less syrupy than many Madeiras, it is nonetheless solid, tasty and very representative of a good Boal. Not as complex but extremely smooth and certainly ready to drink.
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10/12/2015 - mdefreitas wrote: 94 Points
The Rare Wine Company and Vinhos Barbeito Madeira Tasting (celebrating a 20 year partnership): This was the first wine in the tasting that showed marked torrefaction. Browner notes here with fudge, caramel, coffee and autumnal spices. A deep wine with breadth of flavors: tobacco leaf, smoke, burnt sugar and lemon zest. A hint of volatile acidity - but not crossing the line to “varnish”. A lovely wine for a cold winter’s night.
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12/27/2010 - BurgundyWineCompany wrote: 90 Points
Nice ending to a Christmas dinner. Very hot when initially poured, this needed a little air to mellow. Thin and less syrupy than many Madeiras, it is nonetheless solid, tasty and very representative of a good Boal. Not as complex but extremely smooth and certainly ready to drink.
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