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The Rare Wine Co. - Thomas Jefferson Special Reserve Madeira (750ml)
Price: $69.99
| Producer | The Rare Wine Co. |
| Style | Madeira |
| Size | 750ml |
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Medium Dry
As an American, Thomas Jefferson had no peer in his appreciation of French wines.
But that seed wasn’t planted until he was in his forties, by which time he’d been passionate about Madeira for at least 20 years. Born in 1743, Jefferson came of age at a time when Madeira was the king of wine in America—always present on affluent tables and ready to toast important events.
The wine itself is a spectacular fusion of elegance and depth, and youth and antiquity. The oldest component in the blend is more than 80 years old, a fact that Jefferson would undoubtedly have appreciated. That recipe called for a blend of one-tenth “superfine Malmsey” with nine-tenths dry Madeira. Jefferson never lost his taste for what he came to call “silky Madeira.” Decades later, he defined “silky” wines as having the taste of “dry wine dashed with a little sweetness, barely sensible to the palate: the silky Madeira we sometimes get in this country is made so by putting a small quantity of Malmsey into the dry Madeira.”
