Winemaker Notes
Clear and bright coppery brown color with golden nuances and greenish reflections. On the nose it´s very characteristic, exuberant and very ethereal, full of balsamic notes, spices and dry fruits. On the palate it´s very powerful, fresh and concentrated with a long aftertaste and retronasal full of balsamic notes, exotic woods and old rum.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 1976 Blandy's Verdelho Madeira is alive and well. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with aromas and flavors of citrus, mineral notes, and chalk. Try it with linguine and clams in a piquant, wine reduction sauce. (Tasted: June 16, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Aged for 44 year in wood, Blandy's 1976 Verdelho delivers complex aromas of dried peel, clear honey, pine resin, vanilla pod and figs. Medium to full-bodied, elegantly textural and incisive, it's nicely concentrated, with racy acids, fine depth at the core and a long, bittersweet and saline finish. Fleshing out with extended aeration, this is a fine new release.
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Wine & Spirits
This wine’s aroma will take you on a sea voyage, in its scent of waves crashing against the wooden hull of a ship. Then it turns toward dried apricots and nutmeg, peppery and intense, the spice bringing sweetness in its wake. For rabbit sausage smothered wild mushrooms.
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.