Blandy's Colheita Sercial 2011
Region: Madeira
Producer: Madeira Wine Company SA
Why we chose this wine
2011: the year Prince William and Catherine Middleton married in London. A Madeira from this vintage carries that year within it: a wine that has matured patiently in cask for years.
Sercial
The driest style, with vineyards in both the north and the south of the island.
The finest site is Jardim da Serra near Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, but most fruit comes from high-altitude vineyards in the north, some 17 hectares in total.
Sercial carries a great deal of acidity and is at its best after long cask ageing.
Sercial
The driest style, with vineyards in both the north and the south of the island.
The finest site is Jardim da Serra near Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, but most fruit comes from high-altitude vineyards in the north, some 17 hectares in total.
Sercial carries a great deal of acidity and is at its best after long cask ageing.
Flagship van de Madeira Wine Company. Onder de MWC vallen namelijk bekende merken als Blandy’s, Leacock’s, Cossart Gordon, Miles en anderen.
Door deze groepering van namen bezit het bedrijf een indrukwekkende stock aan oude wijnen. Ze kennen steevast een zacht en rond karakter met grote toegankelijkheid voor het grote publiek, maar ook met een mooie diepgang en harmonie in de wijn.
| Volume | 75.0 cl. |
| Grape Variety | Sercial |
| Drinking window | Now - ∞ |
| Serveren bij | Excellent as an aperitif, lightly chilled and served between 11-12°C. Also delicious with almonds, olives, smoked fish or a light consommé. |
| Alc. | 20.0% |
| Vinification | Fortified wine (fermentation stopped by the addition of alcohol). |
| Ripening | Lange opvoeding in oude vaten (Canteiro) in een oxidatief milieu (vaten worden nooit bijgevuld) |
What the critics say
JancisRobinson.com
17,5/ 20
Tasted 02-08-2024
Drink: any time
Drink: any time
Tasted from a 50-cl mini sample. Sercial grapes from Seixal and Jardim da Serra. Aged in the canteiro system, in 650-litre casks at room temperature until bottling. TA 8.6 g/l, VA 0.54 g/l, RS 50 g/l, pH 3.35. 1,733 75-cl bottles. Harvest and winemaker Francisco Albuquerque. One of Blandy's 2024 releases.
It's seems odd to be tasting autumn in such a crisp wine on a blisteringly hot summer day. But it really does smell of crackling, russet-rustling, golden leaves; and it smells of tobacco leaves when they're still golden and silky limp, just beginning to curl. It's a piercingly precise, pin-point staccato of a wine, tasting of pickled lemons and tamarind paste. Of grapefruit and lime in the liminal spaces between the laser lines and tiny scintillas of honey sparking tings of sweetness just where you least expect it. Long after it's gone, your mouth will still be tingling.
— Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com
The producer
Madeira Wine Company SA
This group brings together Blandy's, Leacock's, Cossart Gordon and Miles, and with them an impressive stock of old wines. Chris Blandy and winemaker Francisco Albuquerque make approachable, rounded Madeira with real depth.