Community Tasting Notes 10

• Matthesen Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 29, 2021 - Tasted at Bern's
  Dark color -- like many d'Oliveiras
  Very fresh nose with noticeable VA; lovely!
  Hazelnut, marzipan, coffee, and toffee notes. Balanced with a ton of acidity. Not noticeably sweet, with acidity balancing the sugar and being the primary driver. Really quite lovely and very dense and powerful. Not as good as the 1912, but really quite lovely and complex.

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• lawdro Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 1, 2020 - Sweet, intense butterscotch nose wth vanilla and coconut husk. Extremely well-balanced classic example of verdelho with an acidic and moderately dry mid-palate that flows into a tight but quite deep finish. Very well-rounded wine. I tend to prefer sweeter verdelhos. So add a point to the score if you like them on the dryer side. A-/B+

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• isaacjamesbaker wrote: 94 points

  September 26, 2019 - Deep yet vibrant. So many complexities of brine, pecans, honey, candied lemon peel. So, so delicious and complex.

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• tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 31, 2016 - Rich and deep espresso, dark chocolate, soil, walnut and pecan, orange and apricot, with nicely balanced acidity for a verdelho. Very nice

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• tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 12, 2015 - Similar profile to prior bottles albeit with a darker character and more melded backpalate flavors. Bottle consumed over the course of 1.5 weeks. 94-95

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1966
• Type White - Fortified
• Producer D'Oliveiras
• Varietal Verdelho
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Portugal
• Region Madeira
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Madeira

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• Pending Delivery 3 (7%)
• In Cellars 33 (80%)
• Consumed 5 (12%)

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