Description

Dessert Wine: 1976 | Blandy’s | Vintage Bual

The wine’s sweetness with a dry, dried fruit richness. Its tangy character is impressively concentrated with nuttiness and acidity at the end.

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Producer: Blandy’s

Ratings: WE | 95 D | 98

Vintage: 1976

Size: 750ml

ABV: 20%

Varietal: Bual

Country/Region: Portugal, Madeira

The wine’s sweetness with a dry, dried fruit richness. Its tangy character is impressively concentrated with nuttiness and acidity at the end.

Reviews:

• Wine Enthusiast: The wine’s sweetness with a dry, dried fruit richness. Its tangy character is impressively concentrated with nuttiness and acidity at the end.

• Decanter: Produced from grapes grown at Calheta on the sunny south coast. Deep amber/mahogany colour, this is rich and profound on the nose, with dried fruit compote and heady intensity. Powerful on the palate: the tang of tawny marmalade (115 g/l residual sugar) is offset by bracing acidity, which persists in parallel with dried fruit richness, all the way through the finish. Beautifully focused, this goes on and on. Glorious wine: the last release of a Blandy quartet from this successful vintage.

Producer Information

John Blandy first set foot on Madeira in 1807. In 1989, the Symington family became partners with the Blandy family and is helping to reinvigorate the Madeira trade. Grapes are grown in volcanic soil and hand harvested due to steeply terraced cliffs. The resulting wines are highly acidic and were found by historical accident to benefit from being heated – a process that would destroy any other wine. Originally, Madeiras were heated by the sun, stored in casks on the decks of boats exploring the world during the 18th century. Today, Madeiras are heated in a process called estufagem, which gives them great concentration and an incredible capacity to age while retaining some of the vibrant acidity unique to these wines. The Blandy family is unique in being the only family of all the original founders of the Madeira wine trade to still own and manage their own original wine company. Throughout its long history on the island, the family has played a leading role in the development of Madeira wine throughout its long history. Members of the family continues to live on Madeira, maintaining a tradition that goes back to 1811; 2 centuries of fine wine production.