Henriques & Henriques, Madeira, Boal 10 YR Vintage_2005Madeira is a truly unique style of wine made solely on the island of Madeira, off the coast of Africa. In addition to being fortified, the wines are exposed to both heat and oxygen factors you are usually protecting wine from at all costs. As a result, the wines are basically indestructible, and can be open for years without any loss of quality. The flavors mix bright fruit with toffee, caramel and spiced nuts. Legend has it that the Henriques family
Rinaldi’s wines represent an era in time and are still being made in the traditional manner they have always been made
making it a benchmark for understanding this special terroir
This result is a Syrah defined by fine-grained
2% alcohol level and a high-acid core that yields a vertical
concentrated growing season prompted early harvest
a technical decision that drives the distillate deep into the wood to extract a firm
the family’s intense hands-on farming ensured the fruit came in perfectly ripe
a technical regimen that stabilizes the site’s structural weight while accentuating its characteristic mineral transparency
sort of a peaches and butterscotch feeling along with a denser texture that I would normally get out of Groult
mid-palate weight with a drying
We’re really in an amazing time to drink Tequila (or any agave-based spirits really) as the breadth of top-notch options has really bloomed
The first cask of unpeated whisky aged in first-fill ex-Bourbon barrel