For The Love Of Port

Whatever happened to Peter's Reutter's Madeira blending experiment?

Dear Barry,

I bottled three 0,375 l bottles at the end of 2011 for a special occasion. The rest of the blend is still in demijohn, about 9 l of the original 10 l are left. I started a new position at my job, so I have been very busy and had little time for the blending bussiness.

I would like to increase the overall blend volume to 20-25 liters, without making any sacrifice on quality. I started making little blend samples from a variety of opened old vintage Madeiras and a 10 year old "base wine", sort of like doing the initial blend. But since I no longer have some of the vintage Madeiras that partially went into the first blend, I will have to replicate the MWG blend using whatver I have in my cellar now. This is going to be interesting and of course I will have to taste a lot

Hopefully the 15 liters of the second blend will come close to the first one. Then I might just put the two together, adding up to 24 liters, leaving some reserve volume for fine tuning. I admit, after scoring 94 Points from Roy with the first blend (beginners luck), I am somewhat scared to ruin the whole thing, so I will proceed very slowly. And of course I will have to taste a lot

Best

Peter

It sounds like there's a great story to all of this that I'm just hearing about through this. I'm assuming this is chronicled int he newsletter somewhere, can anyone point me to where?

the original thread started here:

http://www.fortheloveofport.com/ftlopfo ... f=2&t=7091

Peter

and there is the MWG post about the blending:

http://www.madeirawineguide.com/10madei ... ira_blend/

Thanks for the update, Peter. Keep at it!