Winemaker Notes
Warm chestnut color with golden highlights. Lifted, complex aroma of dried fruits, toffee and spices. Sweet, concentrated, full in the mouth with layers of mellow fruits, orange-like citrus and spices, and a long delicious finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This soothing, ripe balm is richly textured with toffee and old wood flavors. It has great richness, balancing the acidity and orange marmalade fruitiness with the maturity of wood aging.
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Wine Spectator
Shows a mix of sesame, buckwheat, date, green tea and singed hazelnut, with hints of ginger and salted caramel on the sweet, bracing finish. Delicious. Drink now. 100 cases imported.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The new release of Cossart Gordon's NV Malmsey 10 Year Old is showing well, offering up aromas of sultanas, figs, mocha and ripe peaches. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and textural, it's nicely proportioned, with a fleshy core of fruit but lively balancing acids. This is a fine example of the category, even if this shipper's five-year-old Malmsey nips at its heels.
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.