D'Oliveira Terrantez Madeira - 1988 (750ml)

Importer's Notes:

Over the years, it has been our privilege to take part in many comprehensive tastings of D’Oliveira vintages. There is a strong “house style” to these wines. They have powerful aromatics, great lushness and viscosity, incredible structure, and a tangy character that is essential to great Madeira.

D’Oliveira believes that Madeiras age best in cask. Consequently, its old vintages are kept in wood, and only enough is bottled to meet short-term needs. The winery was among the first on the island to add bottling years to its back labels to emphasize how long each wine had spent in cask.

The D'Oliveiras 1988 Terrantez is a wine that invites a moment of quiet contemplation, making it the perfect wine with which to end this incredible tasting. There is a highly attractive creaminess as layers of roasted nuts, cloves and leather open up in the glass. This generous, sweet Terrantez offers outstanding length, with lingering notes of sweetness and acidity that intermingled on the, intensely satisfying finish.