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Blandys, 1978 Madeira Wine

Vintage Terrantez Madeira
37.5cl Bottle
***97 points- Best in Show- 2023***

Bottle size: 75cl

ABV: 20%

Price:

$205.81 USD

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    • Description

    1978 Blandy's Terrantez

    Tasting Notes
    Colour . Mahogany with golden-green hue Aroma . Very characteristic bouquet, exuberant aroma with notes of exotic spice, camphor, varnishes, cedar, tobacco leaf. Mouth . Also very characteristic with a sweet attack, becoming very ethereal giving the sensation of spicy and dry, leaving a very long, fresh and dry aftertaste with spicy notes such as curry, saffron and burnt resinous woods.

    About Blandy's 1978 Terrantez
    An exceptionally rare medium rich single vintage Madeira aged for 44 years in 650cl casks at the Blandy’s lodge in Funchal. The terrantez grape is one of the islands rarest grapes, in 2000 there were just 2 Ha of vineyard left in the world. Back in 1978 these grapes we hand harvested in Prazeres, Câmara de Lobos and Caniço on the south coast of the island. The wines were then aged for 15 years in 650cl cask at the Blandy’s lodge in Funchal. Just 1,206 75cl bottles have been released

    About Blandy's
    The Blandy’s family is unique for being the only family of all the original founders of the Madeira wine trade to still own and manage their original wine company. The family has played a leading role in the development of Madeira wine since the early nineteenth century. Blandy’s Madeira remains totally dedicated to the traditions, care, and craftsmanship of Madeira Wine for over 200 years.

    Cellarage & Serving
    Store Upright. Blandy’s Vintage Terrantez 1978 should be served at 18ºC. As the wine is completely stabilized, it is recommended to pull the cork at least 2 days before enjoying this wine. Decanting will help remove any deposit that may have occurred in bottle over time. A wine that is best enjoyed chilled.

    Condition

    Excellent- Bottled 2022

    Reviews

    Wine Enthusiast
    “Mid-mahogany colour with a glint of olive green; lovely savoury-sweet aromas, not that expressive (perhaps that’s the fault of the previous wine) but with a lovely focus, orange marmalade, a hint of greengage, cedar and a touch of camphor; glorious richness and texture (90 g/l residual sugar), candied orange, curry-spice and a bitter-sweet twist with an expressive finish”.
    Richard Mayson - 18.5/20

    Decanter World Wine Awards
    ***97 points- Best in Show- 2023***

    All of Madeira’s ‘noble’ varieties are now rare on the island, but none more so than Terrantez: it has ‘virtually disappeared’ according to Robinson, Harding and Vouillamoz’s Wine Grapes, with just 2 ha said to remain. Meanwhile, stocks of Madeira’s greatest vintage wines, even from the second half of the C20, are now a rarity in their own right – all of which means that the chance even to taste this wine, let alone pass judgement on it, is a fast-vanishing privilege. What might you expect if you can arrange a small glassful with friends? It’s a pale walnut in colour, with aromas which evoke the rarified scents of the multi-levelled ageing lodges as much as anything fruity. Like all fine Madeiras, though, the wine is fresh, clean, almost bracing, and mysteriously marine, as if the wide Atlantic -- and the tar and saltpetre of its now-lost sailing ships -- was somehow brimming in the glass, too. In the mouth it’s medium sweet, burnished, tangy and very long, with its inner tension and almost shocking concentration the result of acidity, sweetness and the oxidative complexities brought by long ageing. As the wine leaves the mouth, it’s not sweetness that you’ll remember and cherish but acidity itself: flavoury, long, almost fiery, unquenchable and challenging.

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