Product Overview
Winery's Notes:
COLOUR - Dark amber with golden reflections.
AROMA - Very complex and characteristic bouquet. Lush with notes of toasted wood, dried fruit, vanilla-like sweet spices, saffron, ripe fruit chutney, dried leaves, and tea.
MOUTH - Very rich, smooth, and balanced, medium sweet, with a very long finish leaving notes of chutney and resinous woods such as cedar.
MAIN BUAL VINEYARD AREAS - Calheta, Arco and Estreito da Calheta, South coast.
VINEYARD CONDUCTION SYSTEM - Espalier.
HARVEST YEAR - 1976.
HARVEST METHOD - Manual, with qualitative selection, during several periods according to the state of maturation.
MATURATION / AGEING - In a “canteiro” system, in 650 L casks at room temperature until the month of bottling.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - Madeira Island (Portugal). Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 km from the Portuguese coast and 600 km from Africa.
SOIL TYPE - Different types of soils of vulcanic nature, derived mainly from basalt, trachytes, tufa, slag and conglomerates.
CLIMATE - Temperate with oceanic charachteristics, verifying a variation of the temperature, humidity and rainfall, depending on the altitude.
Residual Sugar: 115 g/L
Bottling Year: 2023
Winemaker: Francisco Albuquerque
95 Points - Wine Enthusiast
"The wine's sweetness with a dry, dried fruit richness. Its tangy character is impressively concentrated with nuttiness and acidity at the end." -RV, 11/1/23
94 Points - Vinous
"The 1976 Bual was aged for 46 years in very old oak casks. This bottling is limited to 983 bottles plus assorted larger formats. It has a generous bouquet with a lovely warmth. Allspice intermixes with cardamom, curry leaf, dried honey and light wood varnish scents that become more prominent with time. The palate is beautifully balanced with heart-warming purity. With fine tannins and a gentle grip, this is very harmonious, with just the right amount of spice to enliven the finish. Not the most outgoing Bual you will find, almost low-key in a way, yet you’ll keep coming back for another sip. Divine." -NM, Jul/2023
