1987 Terrantez Madeira, Blandy's
The 1987 Terrantez comes from the vestige of plantings on the island in Cãmara de Lobos; this release has 95g/L residual sugar and 10.32g/L total acidity. The nose is beautiful, harmonious and nuanced: Seville orange marmalade, fig jam, smoke and light waxy aromas. This attests to a supremely gifted grape variety. The palate is well-balanced, with a honeyed texture and a keen thread of acidity. It's effervescent in the mouth. Peppercorns and orange rind appear towards a finish that fans out gloriously and lingers. Beautiful. 1,248 bottles released (plus other formats). ~ (95) Neal Martin, Vinous 9-1-2024
The colour of cello rosewood and a wine that has the heart-breast-bone vibration of a cello played in a vast, dark, empty concert hall. The sound of this wine fills your body – deep, resonant. A red-gold maple-sweet timbre so fluid and fluent that you feel as if your throat might be melting into the stream, laminar over sweet, dark, rain-soaked stones. I could tell you that it tastes of kumquats cooked in honey and steeped in sweetly salted brine. I could tell you that it tastes of orange peel and hibiscus petals steeped in Darjeeling tea. This is true. But what matters more is that when you taste this wine, your eyes will involuntarily prickle with tears and you will feel as if someone kissed that spot at the top of your spine, sending a volt of tingling life through every nerve in your body. ~ (19) Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com 8-2-2024
The 1987 Terrantez was produced with grapes from the prestigious Câmara de Lobos and matured in pipas (650-liter) for years until it was recently bottled. It hit the scale at 20% alcohol and has a pH of 3.31 and 95 grams of unfermented sugar. This is a special wine, with the acidity of Sercial, the sweetness of a Boal and with the palate showing great balance; the attack is sweet but it finishes fairly dry. It has roundness and finesse. 1,248 bottles and some larger and smaller formats were produced. It was bottled in April 2024. ~ (96) Luis Gutiérrez, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 12-5-2024
This shows varnish, dried fruit and roasted oranges with smoke and subtle honey notes. Juicy with compelling austerity. Like most Madeira wines, the finish is driven by a combination of sharp cutting acidity, integrated sweetness (95 g/L of residual sugar) and seductive oxidation. This was aged in a canteiro system, in 650-liter American oak barrels, up to bottling in 2023. Drink now or hold forever. ~ (95) Jacobo Garcia-Andrade Llamas, JamesSuckling.com 10-18-2024
The colour of cello rosewood and a wine that has the heart-breast-bone vibration of a cello played in a vast, dark, empty concert hall. The sound of this wine fills your body – deep, resonant. A red-gold maple-sweet timbre so fluid and fluent that you feel as if your throat might be melting into the stream, laminar over sweet, dark, rain-soaked stones. I could tell you that it tastes of kumquats cooked in honey and steeped in sweetly salted brine. I could tell you that it tastes of orange peel and hibiscus petals steeped in Darjeeling tea. This is true. But what matters more is that when you taste this wine, your eyes will involuntarily prickle with tears and you will feel as if someone kissed that spot at the top of your spine, sending a volt of tingling life through every nerve in your body. ~ (19) Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com 8-2-2024
The 1987 Terrantez was produced with grapes from the prestigious Câmara de Lobos and matured in pipas (650-liter) for years until it was recently bottled. It hit the scale at 20% alcohol and has a pH of 3.31 and 95 grams of unfermented sugar. This is a special wine, with the acidity of Sercial, the sweetness of a Boal and with the palate showing great balance; the attack is sweet but it finishes fairly dry. It has roundness and finesse. 1,248 bottles and some larger and smaller formats were produced. It was bottled in April 2024. ~ (96) Luis Gutiérrez, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 12-5-2024
This shows varnish, dried fruit and roasted oranges with smoke and subtle honey notes. Juicy with compelling austerity. Like most Madeira wines, the finish is driven by a combination of sharp cutting acidity, integrated sweetness (95 g/L of residual sugar) and seductive oxidation. This was aged in a canteiro system, in 650-liter American oak barrels, up to bottling in 2023. Drink now or hold forever. ~ (95) Jacobo Garcia-Andrade Llamas, JamesSuckling.com 10-18-2024
SKU: SK3555974-750
COUNTRY : Portugal
REGION : Islands
PRODUCER : Blandy's
FORMAT : 750ml
COUNTRY : Portugal
REGION : Islands
PRODUCER : Blandy's
FORMAT : 750ml