What Madeira Have You Opened This Week?

[Eric Ifune]

I last opened a 07 Blandys Bual last year. Agree with you, it was great upon opening but did improve by the next day.

[Al B.]

A bottle of Justino’s Tinta Negra 1999 Colheita, bottled June 2024. It’s OK, but as hard as I try, I can’t love Tinta Negra.

[Eric Menchen]

A bottle of Justino’s Tinta Negra 1999 Colheita, bottled June 2024. It’s OK, but as hard as I try, I can’t love Tinta Negra.

I think Tinta Negra flies all over the place, sweet, dry, medium sweet ... lots of differences from aging. I bought three bottles last December when visiting the island. One was sweet from 1929, there was a medium-dry 1998, and a 30-year blend. I had others that I didn't think were worthwhile.

[Glenn E.]

A bottle of Justino’s Tinta Negra 1999 Colheita, bottled June 2024. It’s OK, but as hard as I try, I can’t love Tinta Negra.

Is this labeled as a Colheita? Seems like they'd have bottled it as a Frasqueira since it has been in wood long enough. Although if it was bottled in June of 2024, it hasn't (yet) spent the requisite year in bottle before being sold.

[Eric Ifune]

Borges 1979 Sercial