DOliveira Madeira 5 years dry

€ 22.00

A fine dry Madeira, aged 5 years in the cask. It displays an appealingly fresh nose with aromas of fruit and hints of nut. Dry on the palate with flavours of grapefruit and limes. The pleasingly dry finish is long and memorable.

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

The elegant fruit qualities of this dry Madeira wine make it suitable for serving as an aperitif, with starters, olives and smoked ham.

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 11-12°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