Rare Wine Co "George Washington" Madeira Special Reserve NV

Alcohol: 19%

Grape(s): Tinta Negra

Localization: Madeira, Portugal

Tasting Notes: Winemaker Ricardo Freitas set out to capture Washington's preferred style by using a foundation of 10-20 year old wines with a good number of much, much older vintages blended in to achieve the characteristic elegant and robust profile of the Madeiras of Washington's day. In terms of sweetness, this wine falls in the range of a classic Bual, but the older vintages give it plenty of acidic structure and sweetness. Very presidential, indeed.

The Domain: In 1998, The Rare Wine Company began a project to create a series of Madeiras unprecedented in the marketplace: moderately priced wines with the aromatic fingerprint and quintessential texture and flavors of far more expensive vintage Madeiras.
It took years of work, but in 2003, they began releasing the wines which are named in honor of American cities with strong ties to Madeira. New York Malmsey, Boston Boal, and Charleston Sercial all eerily resemble vintage Madeiras -- thanks to the inclusion of wines ranging in age from 30 to 60 years old in the blends. Working with Vinhos Barbeito, which possesses one of the great libraries of legendary 19th century Madeiras, each wine represents a style of Madeira popular in the cities they're named after.