Blandy’s Verdelho 1976 was aged for 44 years in seasoned American oak casks and as with all the family’s vintages, this wine started its ageing process in the warm high attic floors of the lodge in the centre of Funchal. Over the 44 years, the wine passed down from the warmer top floor of the Blandy’s Wine Lodges where it spent the first 5 years, to the second floor and finally to the cooler floor.
Reviews
This wine’s aroma will take you on a sea voyage, in its scent of waves crashing against the wooden hull of a ship. Then it turns toward dried apricots and nutmeg, peppery and intense, the spice bringing sweetness in its wake. For rabbit sausage smothered wild mushrooms.
Aged for 44 year in wood, Blandy's 1976 Verdelho delivers complex aromas of dried peel, clear honey, pine resin, vanilla pod and figs. Medium to full-bodied, elegantly textural and incisive, it's nicely concentrated, with racy acids, fine depth at the core and a long, bittersweet and saline finish. Fleshing out with extended aeration, this is a fine new release.