Support me on my PATREON: https://patreon.com/konstantinbaum Follow me on ...: https://www.instagram.com/konstantinbaum_mw/ Check out my website: https://baumselection.com/ I have used this glass in this Video: RIEDEL Veritas Champagne. I have tasted the following wine in this Video: Coassart The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com): 96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume. 90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines. 80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws. 70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is a soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine. 60 - 69: A below average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors. 50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable. e on my new PATREON: https://patreon.com/konstantinbaum Follow me on ...: https://www.instagram.com/konstantinbaum_mw/ Check out my website: https://baumselection.com/ I have used this glass in this Video: RIEDEL Veritas Champagne. I have tasted the following wine in this Video: Cossart Gordon & Co. 5-Year-Old Bual Madeira 1845 Cossart Gordon & Co. Centenary Solera Bual Madeira The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com): 96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume. 90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines. 80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws. 70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is a soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine. 60 - 69: A below average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors. 50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable. I bought this bottle a few months ago and it is going to be the oldest wine I have ever tasted. The bottle wasn’t cheap – it cost me 1,000 Euros – and even though this is an insane price for a bottle of alcoholic liquid it is unlikely that I will be able to find anything that old for less money… This wine was made 100 years before the second world war ENDED in a world without cars, phones, and Hamburgers. Many wines can age a bit, are few that can last for a long time but the wines that can last for centuries can be counted on one hand… One of them is Madeira. Madeira is an island off the coast of North Africa. It belongs to Portugal but it is closer to Marocco. The island is famous for fortified wines. The story goes as follows: The Island became a hub for sea travel and sailors filled up their ships with wine that was fortified by adding spirit to make it more stable. After a while sailors noticed that the wine tasted better after being exposed to the heat of the tropics and wines that returned from sea journeys were in higher demand than the wines that did not leave the island. Today Madeira is either stored in warm rooms on the island or is heated in the Estufagem process to create a similar effect. Wines are made by arresting the fermentation with 95% strength grape spirit to produce a wine with an alcoholic strength of around 20%. Because of the acidity and sugar from the grapes, the high alcohol level, and the heat treatment these wines become indestructible. Their ability to withstand long journey times turned it into the beverage of choice of the high society in America, during times when there was no wine production in the not yet formed USA. Congress celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence with Madeira, and Thomas Jefferson ordered the equivalent of 3,500 bottles during his first three years in the White House. However, Madeira struggled in the second half of the 19th century and the whole 20th century as the wine industry was heavily impacted by Phylloxera – a grape louse that destroyed the vineyards - and the Prohibition in the US. After phylloxera devasted many of Madeira’s best vineyards at the end of the 19th century, much of the island’s wine was made from American hybrids or the variety Negramoll – which is not considered high quality. But luckily this wine was made in the good old days during the heydays of the Madeira story.