1920 Barbeito Madeira Boal Favilla Vieira

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 96 points

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  5/30/2016 - Bob H Likes this wine:

  Opened today in preparation for an upcoming dinner.
  
  Color is dark caramel/burnt orange. Wow, searing acidity on the nose!
  
  Orange accents, with toffee/caramel. Latent sweetness and a laser beam of acidity. On opening, this almost comes across more as a Sercial than a Boal.
  
  Very nice - looking forward to checking it out in more detail.

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  12/18/2014 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 99 Points

  Baby Jesus (Bouchard), Yquem, Madeira, Rhys, RM (John V.'s): Iced tea color. The nose is WOW. I could smell it from two feet away. Tootsie rolls, oranges, orange peel, and slight dark chocolate. The palate is just as good and matches. This is layered and complex. Powerful yet not over the top. Great balance. Long finish. I keep going back to the nose. Wow.

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  5/2/2011 - rosesandthorns wrote: 93 Points

  This is a bad boy bual. Nose was like dark Turkish coffee, with this earthy green twig thing going on. Coffee, rich with toasty candied dark walnut toffee cake, soaked in some brandy and more coffee fudge. Incredible intensity in flavor, with gorgeous lighter toffee, valencia orange marmalade, a little lemon curd, candied almonds, coffee, that was very rich but not overbearing, thanks to the bracing acidity. The flavors stayed with me – great length and finish a mile down the road, up the hill, around the bend, all the way home. Impressive.You’d think the 1920 would have unwound more, but this wine is very closed unless you decant for a few days. Not just open the bottle and cover with cheesecloth, but decant. Flavor profile very different than one of my all time favorites, the 1920 D’Oliveira Bual, see tasting note, but this was super special and a stunner. This wine was perfectly dressed, coiffed and accessorized with enough quirkiness to raise it’s cache in making it both seductive and approachable - not an easy feat.Michael Alberty at Storyteller Wines in PDX poured this as the super pour this last Friday. Kudos to him for opening this special bottle and educating people about Madeira.

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