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Community Tasting Notes 18
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acidqueen wrote: 93 points
July 17, 2020 - Opened two months and better for it. Intense lemon peel, menthol, caramel, meat broth and tobacco. Seriously bone dry. Best as an aperitif wine than post prandial. Good but not an easy wine if you are used to Bual or Malmsey.
Note - after a few more glasses of this I bumped up the score. This is good stuff.1 person found this helpful Comment -
dream Likes this wine: 96 points
December 19, 2019 - Dry and very fine with great intensity and precision. Long and very complex. A brilliant Sercial that's gorgeous to drink now but has decades of further development ahead. 96+. At annual byob game dinner at Daniel.
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AudunG wrote: 95 points
October 31, 2015 - Unbelievable, but still young, intense and fruity. Nutty aromas with raisins and honey. Very concentrated.
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acidqueen wrote: 91 points
December 28, 2012 - Medium bright amber with yellow edges. Caramel butter nose, with citrus and caramel flavors right after it was opened. Intense acidity, with a piercingly bitter finish. This was tasted just after opening, and with a few weeks of airing it is smoothing out a bit. More fig and caramel showing now.
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hsacks wrote: 95 points
June 10, 2012 - Copper/tawny color. Aromas of tea, toffee, walnuts and a touch of citrus. Though just opened, rich, high acid, complex fruit in the mouth with excellent depth and great length. Very silky and persistent and unusually thick on the palate. This is perhaps the finest "young" Sercial I have ever tasted.
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By Neal Martin
Hurdling Over Time: 19th-Century Madeira (Feb 2019), 2/1/2019 (link)(Barbeito Sercial Fortified/spirits) Subscribe to see review text.
For The Love of Port
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By Roy Hersh
Issue #57, 5/21/2010(Barbeito Sercial Vintage Madeira) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
4/27/2010 (link)(Barbeito Sercial Madeira White) Subscribe to see review text.
For The Love of Port
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By Roy Hersh
Issue #52(Barbeito Sercial Vintage Madeira) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Roy Hersh
December 2008, Issue #38(Barbeito Sercial Vintage Madeira) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Roy Hersh
December 2008, Issue #38(Barbeito Sercial Vintage Madeira) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Richard Jennings
5/21/2010 (link) 93 points(Barbeito Madeira Sercial) Dark orange color with pale yellow meniscus; VA, walnut, Brazil nut, coffee, mocha, toasty nose; tasty, poised, tart lemon, coffee, kumquat, tart orange, tart orange honey palate with medium-plus acidity; very long finish 93+ pts. (one of the remaining two bottles from Mario Barbeito's collection that he bottled in 1983)
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By Richard Jennings
11/27/2005 (link) 94 points(Barbeito Madeira Sercial) Lovely caramel nose; caramel, lemon palate; long finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1910
- Type White - Fortified
- Producer Barbeito
- Varietal Sercial
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Portugal
- Region Madeira
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Madeira
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 53 (69%)
- Consumed 24 (31%)
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