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Blandy’s Vintage Bual 1920
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A member of the Heritage Wine Collection, the 1920 Bual is one of the Blandy Family's most iconic wines.
Aged for over 100 years in both American Oak Casks and, as of March 2017, in glass demijohns, each separate bottling naturally evolved by heat, humidity, cask size, and location withing the Wine Lodge in Funchal.

Only 1,119 individually numbered bottles will be released of this centennial wine.

Reviews

Wine & Spirits
8/23/2020
Points:
98
Wine Advocate
10/14/2020
Points:
97

The centenary bottling of Blandy's 1920 Bual is showing superbly, unwinding in the glass with aromas of dried figs, walnuts, caramelized citrus rind, bitter honey, warm spices and nori. Full-bodied, deep and immensely concentrated, this is a searingly intense, multifaceted and pungently sapid wine of immense vibrancy and persistence; indeed, given its protracted maturation in wood, this Bual represents almost a reduction of Madeira, and each small taste lingers on the palate for minutes. The 1920 Bual remained in oak barrels until March 2017, when it was racked to demijohn, and any of the 900 bottles that constitute this release will be worthy of ardent pursuit.

Wine Enthusiast
10/6/2020
Points:
96

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