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White - Fortified
1983 Artur de Barros e Sousa (ABSL) Madeira Verdelho
Verdelho
- Portugal
- Madeira
Label borrowed from 1984
Label borrowed from 2004
Label borrowed from 2006
Community Tasting Notes 2
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Christer Byklum wrote: 93 points
February 24, 2012 - 1983 Artur de Barros e Sousa Verdelho (Madeira)
Yes, this is a young Madeira. But the Olim brothers who run the family company ABSL makes some of the most elegant, nuanced, fruity and splendid of all Madeiras. Production rarely exceeds 3000 bottles a year, everything hand made, everything in canteiros, meaning heated by air in old lofts. Where can you by it? Normally only at their very old fashioned shop in Funchal. Fantastic! Very pale amber, dried apricots, raisins, bananas, vanilla (and it cannot be from the vastly old barrels....) fantastic layers and complexity. Fresh and high acidity, again nuanced feel, refreshing, lively, intense and still manages to be refreshing, long. 93
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By Roy Hersh
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By Richard Jennings
5/20/2010 (link) 94 points(Artur de Barros e Sousa (ABSL) Madeira Verdelho) Medium dark orange color with bright yellow and orange lights; dried apricot skin, tangerine, citric olive oil, roasted nut nose; tasty, balanced, complex, tart apricot, tangerine, juicy, kumquat palate, tasting like a much more mature Madeira, which is a good thing; long finish 94+ pts.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1983
- Type White - Fortified
- Producer Artur de Barros e Sousa (ABSL)
- Varietal Verdelho
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Portugal
- Region Madeira
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Madeira
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- In Cellars 4 (80%)
- Consumed 1 (20%)
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