Broadbent 5 Year Reserve Madeira
(Portugal) - [WS 90]

About Broadbent Madeira: 
Begun in 1996, Broadbent Madeira was inspired by Bartholomew Broadbent’s father, Michael Broadbent, who called Madeira his “desert island wine,” and who played a crucial role in sourcing the wines and establishing the blends. Bartholomew Broadbent, who spent more than a decade reintroducing Madeira to the U.S. market, was determined to create a line of Madeiras to compete with the best in the world.

Vinification:

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. The fortification of Madeira wine, can only be made by adding – during and after fermentation – neutral alcohol of vinous origin with a minimum alcoholic strength by volume of 96% vol. Aged in oak casks for at least 5 years. This is clearly a different style of Madeira: sweet, yes, but with nearly a vintage Madeira level of acid and complexity.

Tasting Notes:

With its dark gold color and sweet, nutty aromas, this is on the rich side of the Madeira taste spectrum. It has attractive fruitiness and aged citrus acidity that go together, leaving a wine that is sweet but also fresh.