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3 bottles per lot
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Olim, Malvasia 1870
Aged in cask for 149 years. Bottled from large old casks in 2019. New wax capsules with orginal family GD seal. New stencilled bottles
Levels into neck
Strong high-toned nose with balsamic aromas, quite volatile. Rich concentrated fruits with banana leaf, old oak, dark honey cake, and furniture wax on the second nose. Clearly a long cask-aged wine with deep intense flavors. Sweet dried apricot fruit on the attack, very rich, even for a Malvasia. Lots of grip and concentration, still there is freshness and liveliness. So unique to taste a wine that has been aged in cask for about a century and still have this pure of fruit flavors as well as a pleasure-giving drinkability. On the finish, you sense the extracts and some bitters that go on and on. Finally, there is a dried apricot aroma with Indian spices that just keep on singing in your mouth. Remarkable balance and sweetness for a wine of this concentration. Must already have been a great wine to start with. A Malvasia powerhouse. Impressive. Given the rarity of Malvasia in this period, all the more remarkable to find a wine of this amazing quality.
Last tasted April 2019
-Edwin Vos
3 bottles per lot
Aged in cask for 149 years. Bottled from large old casks in 2019. New wax capsules with orginal family GD seal. New stencilled bottles
Levels into neck
Strong high-toned nose with balsamic aromas, quite volatile. Rich concentrated fruits with banana leaf, old oak, dark honey cake, and furniture wax on the second nose. Clearly a long cask-aged wine with deep intense flavors. Sweet dried apricot fruit on the attack, very rich, even for a Malvasia. Lots of grip and concentration, still there is freshness and liveliness. So unique to taste a wine that has been aged in cask for about a century and still have this pure of fruit flavors as well as a pleasure-giving drinkability. On the finish, you sense the extracts and some bitters that go on and on. Finally, there is a dried apricot aroma with Indian spices that just keep on singing in your mouth. Remarkable balance and sweetness for a wine of this concentration. Must already have been a great wine to start with. A Malvasia powerhouse. Impressive. Given the rarity of Malvasia in this period, all the more remarkable to find a wine of this amazing quality.
Last tasted April 2019
-Edwin Vos
3 bottles per lot
Sale room notice
Please note lots 865-867 are vintage 1870, not 1876 as previously catalogued. Estimates remain the same.
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