Product Overview
Winery's Notes:
COLOUR - Amber, clear and bright, with golden nuances.
AROMA - Characteristic, with notes of jams and sweet crystallized fruits, brioche and honey.
MOUTH - Sweet, rich and velvety, but with some freshness, leaving a long aftertaste with warm notes of marmalade and spices.
MAIN MALMSEY VINEYARD AREAS - São Jorge, North coast.
VINEYARD CONDUCTION SYSTEM - Trellis or pergola.
HARVEST YEAR - 1991.
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: 135 g/L
Bottling Year: 2023
Winemaker: Francisco Albuquerque
96 Points - Wine Enthusiast
"The concentrated sweetness of a Malmsey is fully on display in this Madeira. It is rich and gorgeously sweet, a wine to savor in sips. Drink now." -RV, 11/1/23
95 Points - Vinous
"The 1991 Malmsey from Blandy’s was aged 31 years in very old oak casks and contains 135g/L residual sugar. Quite pungent on the nose, it offers Seville orange marmalade, wood varnish, light sea spray scents and persimmon hints on the nose. This is well-focused with fine delineation. The palate is superb: mellifluous from the get-go, with a dash of Szechuan pepper that gets the tongue tingling. Lively, tensile with a wonderful unctuous finish. This feels long, powerful, and yet paradoxically tender. Highly recommended. 1,485 bottles produced." -NM, Jul/2023
