Araujo Barros, Verdelho 1895
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: Sweet intense nose of tobacco, cacao, furniture wax, high toned, fresh and pure.
Soft apply taste, concentrated, medium sweet attack of taste, fresh aromas, touch of spirit on palette, old wood, acacia and honey cake (that lovely Madeiran treat).
Rounded aftertaste of apples, and waxy acidity. Great acidity. Very good wine.
Nice sweetness in the aftertaste with acidity lingering gently on the background. In the MWC tasting room on Madeira in April 2014.
Later that year in NY at the pre-sale tasting this bottle was again showing great class, only slightly behind the superb Araujo Sercial 1891. 95p. Last tasted December 2014. Edwin Vos
1 Bottle (75cl) per lot - (cc)