Looking back at my entries, I found that this wine (Terrantez 1795 I mean, but not necessarily from any specific producer) was first mentioned in my entry on Terrantez in 2011.Of course it was a remarkably pleasant surprise that I was able to taste it in the recent KCCWS Madeira dinner. The wine was a deep tea colour, with a slightly alcoholic (spirity) smoky nose with vine fruits. There was lively sweet acid fruit on the palate with an acid nutty backbone in support.
To put things into perspective, we can remember that the doctor poet John Keats as well as the American philanthropist Johns Hopkins were both born this year. The second Governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Francis Davis was also born this year. Beethoven published his first three piano sonatas in 1795 and Haydn composed his 103rd (Drum roll and 104th (London) symphonies. JS Bach's ninth son, JCF Bach died that year as did the famous English potter Josiah Wedgwood.
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