Madeira Blandy's Superior Seco Fortificado

Description

During 200 years, Blandy’s Madeira has been synonymous with quality Madeira wine. Blandy is the only family among all the original founders of the Madeira wine trade that still owns and runs its original Madeira wine company. The family has played a key role in steering the development of Madeira wine through its history, and its members continue to live on the island, preserving a tradition that dates back to 1811. The Madeira Wine Company began as an association of several Madeira‑wine producers who decided to join forces to strengthen their purchasing and production capacities. The association was founded in 1913. In the ensuing years of dispute, the former family companies of Blandy’s and Leacock merged, followed shortly by a conflict involving Miles and Cossart‑Gordon, thereby creating the largest producer and exporter of Madeira wine. Whatever its size, preserving the unique character and style of each individual company was the association’s central focus. By the late 1970s, the ownership of the Madeira Wine Company, as it was then known, had been reduced to a handful of the original families, with the Blandy family holding the controlling share. In 1989, the Blandy family, needing to bolster the sales and marketing side of the business, invited the Symington family from Porto, Portugal, to partner with them. This partnership has continued to the present day, allowing the Madeira Wine Company to lead the development of the Madeira wine trade. The bottling year may not correspond to the image shown (image is merely illustrative).