#188 Mavrodaphne

An accidental opening tonight.  Originally the port like nose was a surprise.  Then the port-like taste was a further surprise.  Once I looked the bottle.... no more surprise.

This Greek red dessert wine pours an almost yellow brown.  The nose is perhaps a toasted caramel.  The taste is a sherry/madiera blend and the finish is a bracing overly sweet pucker up.

Mavrodafni (also spelled Mavrodaphne, Greek: Μαυροδάφνη, Maurodaphnē) is both a black wine grape indigenous to the Achaia region in Northern Peloponnese, Greece, and the sweet, fortified wine produced from it.