2008 Bual Colheita Blandy's

Tasted from a 5-cl mini sample bottle. TA 6.6 g/l, pH 3.35, VA 0.48 g/l, RS 95 g/l. Harvest winemaker and bottling winemaker Francisco Albuquerque. Bottled 2022. 2,600 bottles.  Currently they’re sourcing Bual from only 14 ha (34 acres) farmed by 104 growers.  Stunning tangerine and clementine notes. Flute-soaring sweetness. This has extraordinary vinosity and viscosity, pulsing with deeply golden, juice-drenched tropical fruit. Passion fruit and mango. Oolong tea. Maple syrup. Poached quince on rye toast. Honey cake sliced with a bronze blade of acidity. The finish has such purity it feels as if someone turned that bronze blade into a glass prism and played the spine-tingling silver strings of Paganini through the shafted old-gold light. (TC)