Product Overview
Winery's Notes:
COLOUR - Dark mahogany with golden reflections, clean.
AROMA - Very characteristic, typical, and exuberant with balsamic notes and exotic spices, iodized notes, old rum, and toasted woods.
MOUTH - Very fresh, concentrated, medium dry with a very long aftertaste, leaving pungent notes of spices, resinous woods like cedar or cigar box.
MAIN VERDELHO VINEYARD AREAS - Santa do Porto Moniz and Raposeira, North coast.
VINEYARD CONDUCTION SYSTEM - Espalier.
HARVEST YEAR - 1982.
HARVEST METHOD - Manual, with qualitative selection, during several periods according to the state of maturation.
MATURATION / AGEING - In a “canteiro” system, in 650 L casks at room temperature until the month of bottling.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - Madeira Island (Portugal). Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 km from the Portuguese coast and 600 km from Africa.
SOIL TYPE - Different types of soils of vulcanic nature, derived mainly from basalt, trachytes, tufa, slag and conglomerates.
CLIMATE - Temperate with oceanic charachteristics, verifying a variation of the temperature, humidity and rainfall, depending on the altitude.
Residual Sugar: 108 g/L
Bottling Year: 2023
Winemaker: Francisco Albuquerque
95 Points - Wine Enthusiast
"This is pure nuttiness with layers of old fruit. The Madeira is golden in its hue and sense of richness. The wine is deliciously mature and ready to drink." -RV, 11/1/23
93 Points - Vinous
"The 1982 Verdelho contains 108g/L residual sugar and was aged for 40 years in very old oak casks. Deep amber in color, it has a well-defined, mellow bouquet with mahogany antique bureau, crème brûlée, singed leather and bonfire aromas that cohere nicely in the glass. The palate is very well balanced with fine tannins and just the right amount of acidity to counter that sweet edge on the finish. This feels like an animated Verdelho, with impressive tension and real finesse coming through toward its slight oxidative finish. This is a classy offering. 1,206 bottles produced." -NM, Jul/2023
