For The Love Of Port

TN: 1808 Solera Extra Malmsey

Pretty dang cool experience with this one. I recently opened a wine bar in Alaska called Crush and put this on our bottle list. A trio of very cool regulars purchased this one and offed me a few full pours to share the bottle with them throughout the evening.
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Upon opening into a decanter: Butter...the best mouth-filling yummiest butter I have had. "I want this on Crepes" was one comment. Almost a bit closed at this point of the night. Finish 5 minutes. The longest finish on any wine I have ever had by a minute plus.

After an hour: Fruit starting to show. Weirdly enough "prunes" was one comment. A bit of raisin. And a touch of acidity coming thru. Finish is 5+ minutes

After 3 hours: Totally different wine. A big backbone of acidity carries all kinds of dried fruit around the palate, fig, rum soaked raisin. Butter is gone, but it is a more typical Madeira with a phenominal 5 minute finish still.

A pretty awesome experience. Exceeded my expectations for a Solera.

Great, Scott to offer stuff like that

Maybe I have to go to Alaska soon

Is this the Blandy one? I've got one bottle of this, picked up on eBay about 3 years ago for 70ukp at the time. So under 150usd . The fill is mid shoulder and there are signs of a bit of leakage, but just one sniff of the capsule says to me the wine is still perfect. I'll post a note when I open it.

Cheers, Dave.

Thanks for the posting. Sounds like absolutely delicious stuff. :)

Ray

Scott,

Congrats on your wine list and new restaurant up there. I am sure that any FTLOP Madeira lover coming up your way, will stop in to visit.

buttimd wrote:Is this the Blandy one? I've got one bottle of this, picked up on eBay about 3 years ago for 70ukp at the time. So under 150usd . The fill is mid shoulder and there are signs of a bit of leakage, but just one sniff of the capsule says to me the wine is still perfect. I'll post a note when I open it.

Cheers, Dave.

Dave,

I've sent you a Private Message (PM), if you could please check it. Thank you.

Could've swarn this was the Madeira I had a few weeks ago. Your bottle showed much better than ours. I think ours needed 24 hours of decanting.