2008 Barbeito Madeira Tinta Negra Colheita

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89 points

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  4/3/2023 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 91 Points

  100% tinta negra. Medium dark amber, makes your nostrils flair! Quite nutty, and very sweet, like a dessert wine, but stonger! No doubt there is a place for this, but I am not sure what it is!

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  11/10/2022 - platpeeps Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Salted caramel spiked with a sprinkle of salt developing cream. Soft and rounded developing a fabulous length of finish. 91 pts

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  9/3/2022 - forceberry wrote: 86 Points

  Made with Tinta Negra grapes sourced from Estreito de Câmara de Lobos on the southern side of the island. Half of the grapes are harvested very early for the higher acidity, the remaining portion a week later at full ripeness. The partially fermented must is rectified to approx. 20% ABV with 96% ABV grape spirit to halt the fermentation. In march 2009 the fortified wine was transferred to old French oak casks and aged in Canteiros, ie. in warm warehouses, in which the wines age in casks that are never topped up. The wine was bottled filtered in march 2019, after ten years of aging. Labeled medium-dry. 19,2% alcohol, 62g/l residual sugar, 5,96 g/l acidity, pH 3,51 and 0,57 g/l VA. Total production 2986 half-liter bottles.
  
  Moderately deep, subtly reddish amber color. Somewhat restrained and rather nutty nose with aromas of dried peach, some savory notes of old wood, light oxidative notes of roasted walnuts, a little bit of burnt sugar and a hint of malted barley. The wine feels balanced, moderately sweet and somewhat linear on the palate with a rather full body and a bit straightforward flavors of ripe orange and sharp lemony citrus fruit, some bruised apple tones, a little bit of wildhoney, light pineapple tones, a hint of something smoky and a touch of malt. The overall feel is rather high in acidity, lending the wine some sense of freshness and structure. The finish is rather sweet and somewhat oxidative with a quite long aftertaste of apple jam and ripe Granny Smith apple, some oxidative notes of walnut, a little bit of tangy lemony citrus fruit, light honeyed notes, a malty hint of barley wine and a touch of old wood.
  
  A pleasant and tasty but ultimately a bit soft and quite simple Tinta Negra. Nothing wrong here, this wine just doesn't manage to create much excitement. It's just a decent, moderately sweet fortified wine with balanced acidity but relatively little in the way of complexity. Perhaps a bit on the pricey side for the quality at 21€ for a half-liter bottle.

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  4/22/2021 - R J Lewis wrote:

  From 10cl sample btl.
  
  N: pronounced with aromas of sultana, dried apricot, just a small hint of rancio roasted nut quality. Quite spirity overall, like a sweeter style of malt whisky.
  P: high acidity, but with an overall rounded mouthfeel, quite soft an generous. Again taste quite cereal-like, malty, almost like a low-ABV Scothc like Glenmorangie. Some fruit on the finish that shows it's not entirely developed, quite fresh for the category. Plush. Nice easy-drinking style, a contract to the classic 4 white varieties.

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  12/28/2020 - FjordogFjell wrote: 88 Points

  Frisk og fin. Apsikat fint treverk, lett sødme fin syre. For lett og frisk til hval marsipan og julekaker

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