Araujo Barros, Sercial 1891
Madeira
Level into neck. Wax capsule. Fading stenciling with pristine front and back label. Bottled in 1949, rebottled in 1973, 1998 & 2024 by the family.

Tasting note: First tasted in 2014. Fresh smokey tones in a slightly sweet attractive nose, tobacco, leather and butterscotch aroma. Very fine, very nice nose.
Tangy taste start, concentrated and intense. Lots of extract as can be expected of a long cask aged wine, touch spirity. On the finish some red grapefruit aroma and slight lingering bittertone. Long. Very good wine. A classic Sercial with high natural concentrated acidity.
Later that year the same sample bottle, shipped to NY for the pre-sale tasting, double decanted 9 hours in advance was phenomenal. A superb wine of great Sercial refinement, one of the best Sercials I have tasted. In the range of 18 vintage madeira's the wine that stood out in a top three. Dec 2014.
Another bottle served at the pre-sale byob dinner in December 2015 showed its class. One of the wines of the evening. 96p. Last tasted December 2015. Edwin Vos
1 Bottle (75cl) per lot - (cc)