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Blandy's Verdelho, 10 years old 50cl
Madeira from Madeira
The fortified wines produced on Madeira all have a huge streak of acidity and have been heated during their maturation to temperatures that would destroy other wines. That they have survived to produce examples such as this is remarkable. Produced from the verdelho grape, this is a medium-sweet wine with hints of caramel and coffee. Serve it chilled and savour the extraordinary length of flavour.
Price:
£20.00
Bottle
Price:
£120.00
Case of 6
In Stock
Code: MA231
Wine characteristics
- Madeira
- 5 - Medium sweet
- 50cl
- 19% Alcohol
- bouquet/flavour marked by oak
- Stopper cork, ie sherry
Madeira Wine Company
The Madeira Wine Company has come a long way since it was formed in 1913: today, it accounts for around 35% of the island’s total Madeira production.
It began as the joint venture of two producers who wanted to survive a bleak economic period by pooling their resources and reducing costs. They formed the Madeira Wine Association, and over the years several other companies joined them to brave the increasingly competitive and costly market.
One of the most notable additions was Blandy’s, who came on board in 1925, at the same time as Leacock’s. Along with Cossart Gordon and Co, who joined in 1953, and Rutherford and Miles, these four companies today make up the main brands associated with the company’s premium Madeira production.
Blandy’s is the company that has had by far the most involvement in the running of organisation, perhaps due to its significant experience: the only remaining Madeira company that is still family-run, in 2011 it celebrated 200 years of production, having made a considerable contribution to the history and development of Madeira.
John Ernest Blandy became chairman of the Madeira Wine Company in 1925. His right-hand man was a previous Blandy’s manager, Thomas L Mullins, who instilled in the union a spirit of keeping each company true to its own style while reducing overheads. This ethos exists to this day, which is perhaps why the organisation has lasted as long as it has.
The Madeira Wine Association didn’t become The Madeira Wine Company until 1981. By...
Wiltshire Life
Try [this] as a medium [sweet] option with bright coffee and caramel notes.
Manchester Evening News
Fresh on the nosewith just a hint of spirit. The medium-bodied palate has a long spicy finish.<br>
Wine-pages.com
Rather more sherried,compared with the Sercial, with honey and walnut and the palate intenselysweet, pure sweet grape and cherry freshness to the acids, but the 75gl ofsugar more apparent.
Olive
Mentioned as stockist. - Kate Hawkings
Rotherham Advertiser
Medium dry, niceacidity, mellow caramel and coffee.