DOliveira Madeira 5 years sweet

€ 22.00

Molasses and coffee on the nose, raisins, dates and rich fruitcake on the palate, but with a perfect acid balance.

Long ship journeys are no longer used for aging, but rather, the estufa method is often employed, in which hot water circulates through a coil in the middle of a steel tank, heating the wine for 90 days, or the wine is stored in a room with steam pipes for 6 months to a year. The finest madeiras, though, are made without any heating besides the sun and time (20 years!). Madeira is decidedly unique, and quite probably the worlds longest living wine.

Food-pairing

Delicious with pancakes, cake, pie and panna cotta. Excellent with tropical fruits, dark chocolate, pralines, petit-fours, cakes, honey cake (bolo de mel) and butter biscuits

Alcoholcontent

19%

Store & Serve

Always store a Madeira wine upright. The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork when the bottle is stored horizontally.

Serve at 18°C

Requires no decanting.

Still good for months after opening.

Madeira is a wine aged for several years in an oxidative environment, before bottling in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be kept almost indefinitely, as the air no longer affects Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months – if there is anything left – than when it opened the bottle.

Tags : Madeira - D'Oliveira