{"id":6238,"date":"2010-05-17T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:50:19","slug":"blandys-5-year-sercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/blandys-5-year-sercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Blandy&#8217;s 5 Year Sercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Blandy&#8217;s, Madeira, 5 Year Old, Sercial nv <\/strong>The nose features dried fruits and nuts, melding a sense of citrus and raisins with honey all wrapped into a nutty dessert. The complexity is great and always leads one down a garden path to expect loads of sweetness but we know otherwise when it comes to the wines made from this grape in Madeira.<\/p>\n<p>In the mouth the citrus notes continue, with lots of Madeira&#8217;s characteristic acidity. There is also that nuttiness, like almonds dashed with a bit of caramel. The sweetness is there at 50 grams per litre but does not seem so with the acidic foil. There&#8217;s a silky smooth texture and a mild sense of the brandy &#8211; very nice. It&#8217;s best to think of this wine with strongly flavoured appetizers rather than dessert.<\/p>\n<p>After fermentation, the wine is fortified then aged in the warm lofts of the lodges, where it develops its signature flavor profile.<\/p>\n<p>Produced and bottled by the Madeira Wine Company in Funchal 19%  purchased for $19.69 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Blandy's\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blandys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blandy&#8217;s<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blandy&#8217;s, Madeira, 5 Year Old, Sercial nv The nose features dried fruits and nuts, melding a sense of citrus and raisins with honey all wrapped into a nutty dessert. The complexity is great and always leads one down a garden path to expect loads of sweetness but we know otherwise when it comes to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121,43,44,797],"tags":[798],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aperitif","category-madeira","category-portugal","category-sercial","tag-blandys-madeira-wine-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}