Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
93
/100
Reviews
8
professional
Vintages
1
1969
Fortified
92/100
Sercial
NV
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Taster #5607
· Oct 2, 2020
Very complex, garam masala, brown sugar, ripe guava, flower, very lovely and lovely with all sorts of warm spices, incredible. Great acidity, gentle sweetness, excellent inner mouth perfume and great elegance. Complex savouriness, delineated, powerful and light at the same time. Good length.
1969 vintage
Taster #8896
· Dec 25, 2016
Wines for Christmas Goose (San Francisco) : Amber. Off dry, nutty, long, and salty. Excellent bottle.
1969 vintage
Taster #8736
· Sep 24, 2016
93/100
Finally finished this three months after I popped this. It is unbelievable how Madeira comes together after a few months. I would say it actually improves with time open. The acid is tamed weeks later and its sweetness is popping. A very nutty madeira. This is the second time this bottle and I'd love to have it again.
1969 vintage
Taster #9635
· Nov 19, 2015
92/100
Last pour from a bottle that I'd been slowly following over a couple of months. This has really changed from the first few sips I had, when it was all screechy acid. Now the acidity's much better integrated into the wine, and there's a remarkable array of savoury flavours here - tobacco, leather, and roasted nuts, augmented by sweeter molasses and dried fruit notes. Incredibly complex and long. I definitely need to buy more Madeira.
1969 vintage
Taster #9635
· Oct 3, 2015
91/100
Iberian dinner (Milford, CT) : Holy crap, the acidity on this one. A really high toned, piercing nose with cardamom, fennel seed, molasses, roasted nuts, and coffee notes, but it comes across almost dry on the palate with tart citrus and figgy fruit and nutty flavours lifted by powerful acidity. Really curious to see how this bottle develops with more time/air, but it's compelling stuff, though not as pleasurable as the Verdelho.
1969 vintage
Taster #7071
· Oct 3, 2015
91/100
Iberian Wine Dinner (Milford, CT) : A Sercial for those who really love Sercial. A sharp, lean, high-toned, wine with nut skins, lemons and a touch of varnish. Medium length with a tangy finish of granny smith apples in toffee. I enjoyed this, but the enamel-stripping acidity may not be for everyone.
1969 vintage
Taster #9298
· Dec 14, 2014
93/100
Dark tawny gold. Deep and slightly volatile nose of candied stone fruit. The palate is a little saline, molasses, roasted nuts, burnt sugar, and overripe peaches. The finish is very long and a bit warming. Overall really intense dessert flavors totally lightened by huge but palatable acidity .
1969 vintage
Taster #5610
· Mar 22, 2014
94/100
Madeira with Eric Ifune (Sunnyvale, CA) : Fresh, lively nose with slight nuttiness, great freshness, almost like great sherry; full bodied, dry, incredible complexity, cigar, caramel, constantly evolving flavor, great fresh acidity throughout; long finish. The palate is really where this wine just explodes. 94
1969 vintage
Taster #5964
· Dec 23, 2013
92/100
I love this wine but at the risk of offending the sherry gods not sure it is any better than the case of amontillado from Alvear I bought about 10 years ago.
1969 vintage
Taster #9174
· Aug 20, 2013
Besøk hos Pereira d'Oliveira (Funchal, Madeira) : Duft: Kraftig nese. Smak: Fantastisk munnfølelse, frukt og syre, laang ettersmak og en fantastisk syre.
1969 vintage
Taster #6865
· Sep 22, 2012
93/100
Love love love this, could just take in the aroma for hours. Almonds and orange, wonderful acidity, so mouth watering.
1969 vintage
Taster #2546
· Jun 12, 2012
91/100
Madeira Trade Tasting San Francisco (Hotel Monaco, San Francisco, California) : Light medium orange color with golden lights; saffron honey, roasted almond nose; light roasted almond, saffron, tart honey palate; long finish 91+ points
1969 vintage
Taster #6865
· Mar 30, 2012
92/100
Lovely. Nose of pecan shell and cocoa and almonds and orange zest. Wonderful acidity throughout, literally mouth-watering, lively and deep.
1969 vintage
Taster #2546
· Oct 11, 2011
91/100
From Madeira to USA: Madeira's Five Major Producer/Exporters Present a Trade Tasting (Hotel Monaco, San Francisco, California) : Medium orange red color with 1 millimeter clear meniscus; baked lemon, lemon tajine, tart orange nose; tasty, poised, tart baked lemon, lemon tajine, light brine palate with medium-plus acidity; very long finish 91+ points
1969 vintage
Taster #4662
· Feb 20, 2010
93/100
Drank this with braised lambshanks with olives and preserved lemons. A surprisingly good pairing (inspired Mr. Asimov's wonderful article a couple of months ago), it is the first time I have tried Madeira with savory. Sadly it was not quite as popular with my dining partners.
1969 vintage
Taster #2393
· Nov 9, 2007
90/100
Schildknizzle in the House (SFJoe's) : Nice night when the Madeira is one of the youngest wines of the evening but a special experience nonetheless. Strong nuttiness and some dried fruit and coffee grounds in the bouquet, more of a digestif than a wine but flavored less like brandy than whiskey and rye with just enough sweetness or glycerine to reign in the austerity.
1969 vintage