Madeira tasting notes, February 2003

See also Dear, dear madeira wine news, Insider's madeira in inside information and my madeira tasting notes from March 2002.

These are tasting notes on current offerings from the main serious madeira producer, the Madeira Wine Company (MWC) whose main labels are Blandy's (for fuller wines) and Cossart Gordon, Henriques & Henriques (pronounced 'Hen-reeks') and a couple of wines from the house of Barbeito which is jointly owned by the Barbeito family and a Japanese company.

I have subdivided these tasting notes into the categories I think they'd most usefully be drunk in: any time, before, during and after...