
1968 Blandy's Vintage Bual
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- Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 290 / 750ml
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4 from 1 User Rating
- 3 Critic Reviews
- Style Dessert - Lush and Balanced
- Grape Variety Bual (Malvasia Fina)
- Food Pairing Cakes and Cream
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Part of the Madeira Wine Company. Includes the Centenary (2020) bottling of the 1920 vintage.
Critic tasting note: (1968 vintage) "(2013) Nutty, burnt butter colour. Mellow rum and raising, fudge-like, maple syrup character, but a hint of dry, nutty, shellac too adding a complex layer. The palate has wonderful sweetness, but all that dry, nutty, wonderfully refreshing finish, a sweet meatiness, lovely long finish, where that definition and intensity, concentration and ripeness." - Tom Cannavan
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- Producer Notes
- Two centuries and seven generations producing excellent wines. Blandy’s distinguishes itself for being the only family, of all the originalfounders of the Madeira wine trade, which still owns and manages its own original wine company.
- Alcohol ABV
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19 - 21%
- Residual Sugar g/L
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89.6 g/L
- Sweetness
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Medium sweet
- Maturation
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Oaked
- Winemaker
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Ferdinando Bianchi
- Ownership
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Chris Blandy
- Total Production Volume
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Less than 24,000 Bottles
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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Madeira Island (Portugal). Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 km from the Portuguese coast and 600 km from Africa. SOIL TYPE . ifferenttypes ofsoils ofvulcanic nature, derivedmainlyfrombasalt,trachytes,tufa,slag and conglomerates. CLIMATE . Temperate with oceanic charachteristics, verifying a variation of the temperature, humidity and rainfall, depending on the altitude.
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- Harvest Notes
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Manual, with qualitative selection, during several periods according to the state of maturation.
- Ageing
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In a “canteiro” system, in 650 L casks at room temperature until the month of bottling.
Awards
(3)Details
- Producer Notes
- Two centuries and seven generations producing excellent wines. Blandy’s distinguishes itself for being the only family, of all the originalfounders of the Madeira wine trade, which still owns and manages its own original wine company.
- Alcohol ABV
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19 - 21%
- Residual Sugar g/L
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89.6 g/L
- Sweetness
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Medium sweet
- Maturation
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Oaked
- Winemaker
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Ferdinando Bianchi
- Ownership
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Chris Blandy
- Total Production Volume
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Less than 24,000 Bottles
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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Madeira Island (Portugal). Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 km from the Portuguese coast and 600 km from Africa. SOIL TYPE . ifferenttypes ofsoils ofvulcanic nature, derivedmainlyfrombasalt,trachytes,tufa,slag and conglomerates. CLIMATE . Temperate with oceanic charachteristics, verifying a variation of the temperature, humidity and rainfall, depending on the altitude.
Read more
- Harvest Notes
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Manual, with qualitative selection, during several periods according to the state of maturation.
- Ageing
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In a “canteiro” system, in 650 L casks at room temperature until the month of bottling.
Awards
(3)Critics Scores & Reviews
(3)User Ratings
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For Bordeaux, the 1968 vintage was the product of an extremely wet August and generally bad growing season making the overall quality low. Burgundy also suffered with very little to recommend it. For Italy, 1968 marked another good year and saw the first public release of Sassicaia. Port was also good but few houses declared....
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