1977 DOliveira Terrantez Vintage Madeira - medium dry
€ 590.00
These vintage or frasqueira wines are the top wines of Madeira. The maturation potential is almost unlimited.
This madeira of the highest quality must have been in barrels for at least 20 years plus two years in bottles before it can be sold. This wine used to be called vintage madeira. A frasqueira must consist entirely of one of the top varieties that are mentioned on the label, together with the harvest and bottling year. Frasqueiras always come from one good harvest year. They have undergone a mild temperature treatment and have been stored in wooden barrels for a long time. After bottling, the quality of frasqueira does not change anymore. These madeira wines are inventoried, given their uniqueness.
Food-pairing
Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal. Dried fruits.
Crème Brulee, caramel desserts made with apples, apricots, pecans, cherries, almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs & vanilla ice cream desserts.
The perfect companion to a pipe, cigar or aromatic tobacco.
Grapes: Terrantez 100%
Terrantez is a difficult to grow white medium sweet grape variety. It does not do well with moisture and therefore the slopes on the east coast are best suited. The variety has become rare, barely 5ha and 500 kilos. Typical for Terrantez is a certain bitterness and an aftertaste that reminds of roasted coffee and ash.
Terrantez (also known as Cascal) is a now-rare white Portuguese wine grape variety that was once widely used on the island of Madeira to make the sweet fortified wine for which the island is known. By the 1990s, the variety was nearly extinct on Madeira, due to a combination of low yields and the mid-19th century oidium (powdery mildew) and phylloxera epidemics that devastated the island's vineyards. The variety has experienced a slow revival in recent years, but as of 2021, plantings on Madeira remain limited to 5.64 hectares (13.9 acres). The Madeiran government has led replanting efforts from 2016 in the form of free viticultural advice and subsidies to growers. There are still some limited plantings in the Minho Province where, as Cascal, is a permitted blending variety with Alvarinho and other grapes in the Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) wine Vinho Verde. As Terrantez the grape is permitted in several of the Indicação de Proveniencia Regulamentada (IPR) regions of the Azores including Biscoitos IPR on Terceira Island, Graciosa IPR on the island of Graciosa and Pico IPR on Pico Island.
Alcoholcontent
19,5%
Store & Serve
Always store Madeira wine upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they will attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down
Serving: 18°C
Madeira is a wine that matured for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment during bottling. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be stored almost indefinitely, as the air no longer has any effect on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any left - than when the bottle was opened.
Critics & Awards
97/100 - Tim Atkin Tasted: Oct 2012
91/100 - CellarTracker (32 notes)
90/100 - Wine & Spirits Magazine
17,5/20 - Jancis Robinson
Bottled 2009 and made in a vintage that was particularly good for Terrantez.Dark jewelly brown. Spicy, feral sort of nose with real depth and reward. Coconut and richness and really quite dry on the end. A curiosity. Interesting but a bit challenging. Some astringency – the inherent dryness of Terrantez presumably. Very firm. Very slow maturing." Jancis Robinson
Producer: D'Oliveira
Region: Madeira
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