Week 8
Name: Broadbent Madeira Rainwater
Variety: Tinta Negra
Region: Madeira
Country: Portugal
Year: Unknown
Price: Around $10
Food? No
Description from the Winery: "Combining different
wines together, we try to have a final wine with high
quality. Blending helps to balance the wine, to add
layers of flavors and better integrate the sugars
and acids. Blending allows us to select the best
characteristics of different wines and then mix them
all together to create a much better flavor profile,
maintaining the consistence of quality and, off course,
reduce the negative impacts, if any, that some harvest
years may present."
My Review: This wine smells like acetone and hard liquor, and tastes like honey whiskey and apples. Specifically, it tastes like the Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey. There's a very bready mouthfeel and warmth on the back palate that I didn't appreciate.
I didn't expect it to be a dessert whine, which it so obviously is. The packaging is deceptive. I was caught off guard by it and didn't appreciate having such strong alcohol jumped on me. This wine tricked all of my roommates with it's piratey label.
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