1977 D'Oliveiras Madeira, 1977

Terrantez Madeira with solid oak gift box with silk liner.

Description and Reviews:
"Light medium orange amber color with yellow to clear meniscus and light orange lights; nice, nut oil, melted butter, lightly floral, toasted almond, rich toffee nose; tasty, youthful but poised and complex, toasty, almond, rich lemon, tart orange palate with depth and a very long finish.
*Bottled in 2015*

Terrantez is a near-extinct white-wine variety from the Portuguese island of Madeira, in the eastern Atlantic. It is most likely that the variety was taken to the volcanic archipelago from the Portuguese mainland by early explorers. The 1795 vintage saw a prolific output of long-lived Madeira Terrantez wines, a number of which have survived into the 21st Century. These are some of the oldest surviving wines on Earth. Unfortunately, the likelihood of the variety ever regaining its former glory is extremely low, and there is no incentive to plant new Terrantez vines on the island, so they are likely to be among the last of their kind...


Food matches for Terrantez include:
*Walnut bread with manchego cheese and dry-cured Spanish ham (jamon de
serrano)
*Roast duck with dark chocolate jus
*Toasted flatbreads with olive oil and aromatic dukkah.