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Label borrowed from 1897
Label borrowed from 1897
Community Tasting Notes 15
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KenK Likes this wine: 94 points
April 3, 2016 - Classic nose of toasted walnuts and burnt orange rind. Intense sweet ripe flavors with a dominating hard citric acid edge. Long wild passion fruit finish that really lasts over a minute. Great stuff and so much life it's crazy.
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jlgnml Likes this wine:
April 3, 2016 - Olde Wine Dinner 1925-1966 (Chez Kailin Cellars): First real Maderia experience. Dark and clean color, needed time to develope biut I can see the potential. Very good.
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steinersing wrote: 99 points
October 28, 2015 - FICOFI HK event - highlight of an amazing evening, for me. Great balance of aromas of stewed fruits, berries, black cherry, with some delightful freshness and excellent length. Haunting.
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fcxj wrote: 98 points
October 17, 2015 - Ficofi 30th in Hong Kong. This Madeira was an epic drinking experience, possibly wine of the night for me. Fresh and seriously intense. Burnt sugar. Kept developing, so complex. Really mind-blowing when you then look at the age on the label. 1827 what?
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NickBurwood Likes this wine: 97 points
September 9, 2014 - Mature "Iconic Burgundy" dinner and tasting in Christie's board room, London. Limited note taking.
A splendid way to finish the dinner. Caramel, charred oak, dry fig, desert fruits, spiced cooking apples, etc etc..... Intrinsically sweet but with the searing pectic acidity that all fine old Boals seem to possess throwing it into perfect balance.
Immensely long (30+ minutes). Superb - 97+ and pretty well immortal!
ps looked at my note on the Lomelino 1820 Solera Boal drunk on my birthday in April - virtually word for word identical!
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By Neal Martin
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By Roy Hersh
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By Roy Hersh
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By Richard Jennings
4/3/2008 (link) 99 points(Quinta do Serrado Madeira Bual) Medium dark brown and brick brown color with clear meniscus; clean roasted coffee, butterscotch and hard caramel candy nose; tangy, deep, mocha, caramel palate with great acidity, restrained power and elegance; mocha truffle dust toward super long finish (in cask until 1935, bottled some time earlier than 1989, when more of this wine was bottled for Christie's auction)
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By Richard Jennings
1/7/2007 (link) 94 points(Quinta do Serrado Madeira Bual) Medium brown with clarity; briney, salty and vanilla nose; deep rich quality with good acid, rich but not sweet, vanilla, maple syrup, crème brulee, with a notion of dried apricot and oyster juice concentrate; long finish 94+ pts. (in cask until 1935, bottled some time earlier than 1989, when more of this wine was bottled for Christie's auction)
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1827
- Type White - Fortified
- Producer Quinta do Serrado
- Varietal Bual
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Portugal
- Region Madeira
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Madeira
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 3 (2%)
- In Cellars 91 (71%)
- Consumed 34 (27%)
Food Pairing
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