From: Madeira, Portugal
Varietal: Boal
Winemaker notes. Combining different wines together, we try to have a final wine with high quality. Blending helps to balance the wine, to addlayers 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 harvestyears may present.
Critical Acclaim & Taste:
WS 92 Wine Spectator
Shows a slightly plump edge to the mix of date, singed hazelnut and toffee flavors before a racy back end takes over, with bracing ginger and green tea notes. Offers a persistent finish.
WW 90 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The Broadbent 10 Years Old Boal Madeira is a satisfying fortified wine exhibiting flavors of caramel, toasted nuts, and toffee. This wine should pair well with aged hard cheeses. (Tasted: November 10, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
RP 90 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The latest release of Broadbent's NV Boal Ten Years Old exhibits aromas of ripe cherries, pecans, orange rind and honey cake. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and fleshy, with a generous and enveloping core of fruit, lively acids and a cohesive finish.
About. Michael Broadbent is considered the world's most experienced taster of Madeira. He went to the island to select the best wines for the Broadbent Madeiras. This resulted in a collaboration with Justino Henriques, the most important producer of classical Madeira. Produced only from the finest grapes grown on the island, Broadbent Madeira's are made in strict accordance with the traditional methods.