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TWO NINETEENTH CENTURY MADEIRAS DIRECT FROM THE ARAUJO DE BARROS RESERVES
Lying in Corsham, Wiltshire (Octavian)
Araújo de Barros, Sercial 1891
José Gomes Henriques de Araujo, Referta Prazares Madeira. Aged in oak casks for 58 anos, Bottled 1949, Rebottled 1973, Rebottled 1998. Wax capsules. Hand-painted name and vintage on bottle with slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels into neck
Tasting note: Multiple notes. First in 2014. Fresh smoky tones in a slightly sweet attractive nose, tobacco, leather and butterscotch aroma. Very fine, very nice nose. Tangy taste start, concentrated and intense. Lots of extract as can be expected of a long cask aged wine, touch spirity. On the finish some red grapefruit aroma and slight lingering bitter tone. Long. Very good wine. A classic Sercial with high natural concentrated acidity.
Later that year the same sample bottle, shipped to NY for the pre-sale tasting, double decanted 9 hours in advance was phenomenal. A superb wine of great Sercial refinement, one of the best Sercials I have tasted. In the range of 18 vintage Madeira’s the wine that stood out in a top three. Another bottle served a year later at the NY Bring Your Own Madeira Bottle dinner in showed its class. One of the wines of the evening. Last tasted December 2015. EV.
3 bottles per lot
Lying in Corsham, Wiltshire (Octavian)
Araújo de Barros, Sercial 1891
José Gomes Henriques de Araujo, Referta Prazares Madeira. Aged in oak casks for 58 anos, Bottled 1949, Rebottled 1973, Rebottled 1998. Wax capsules. Hand-painted name and vintage on bottle with slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels into neck
Tasting note: Multiple notes. First in 2014. Fresh smoky tones in a slightly sweet attractive nose, tobacco, leather and butterscotch aroma. Very fine, very nice nose. Tangy taste start, concentrated and intense. Lots of extract as can be expected of a long cask aged wine, touch spirity. On the finish some red grapefruit aroma and slight lingering bitter tone. Long. Very good wine. A classic Sercial with high natural concentrated acidity.
Later that year the same sample bottle, shipped to NY for the pre-sale tasting, double decanted 9 hours in advance was phenomenal. A superb wine of great Sercial refinement, one of the best Sercials I have tasted. In the range of 18 vintage Madeira’s the wine that stood out in a top three. Another bottle served a year later at the NY Bring Your Own Madeira Bottle dinner in showed its class. One of the wines of the evening. Last tasted December 2015. EV.
3 bottles per lot
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