Winemaker Notes
Bright crystalline, topaz color with golden highlights. Bouquet is intense, with notes of marmalade, toasted nuts, crystallized fruit, honey and brandy spice. In the mouth it is sweet, soft, and dense, with a long aftertaste. Fresh and ho with notes of marmalade, candied fruit and toasted wood. This wine should be enjoyed chilled.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
A very pure expression of Malvasia. A refined apricot character, and lovely savoury, smoky aromas of pistachio, barley sugar and walnut.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Bottled in 2019, Blandy's 2004 Colheita Malmsey offers up a deep bouquet of marmalade, sultanas, candied peel, toasted pecans and cigar smoke. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, with a nicely layered core, excellent concentration, lively but nicely integrated acids and a long, lingering finish. This is a beautifully balanced wine that represents terrific value in the world of contemporary Madeira.
A steep, volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean that rises to over 6,000 feet at its highest point, Madeira actually sits closer to Morocco than Portugal, the country to which it belongs.
Today the vineyards of the island cover tiny step-like terraces called poios, carved from the basalt bedrock. Aptly named Madeira, this fortified wine comes in two main styles. Blended Madeira is mostly inexpensive wine but there are a few remarkable aged styles. Single varietal Madeira (made from Sercial, Verdelho, Boal or Malmsey), is usually the highest quality and has the potential to improve in the bottle for decades.