D'Oliveira Malvazia 2000
Region: Madeira
Producer: Pereira D'Oliveira Vinhos Lda.
Why we chose this wine
2000: the year the world welcomed the new millennium. A Madeira from this vintage carries that year within it: a wine that has matured patiently in cask for years.
Malvasia
The sweetest of all and mainly found in Santana and Sao jorge in the north with 36 hectares planted. It is definitely the most luscious grape with a nice balance between sweet and acid.
Malvasia
The sweetest of all and mainly found in Santana and Sao jorge in the north with 36 hectares planted. It is definitely the most luscious grape with a nice balance between sweet and acid.
| Volume | 75.0 cl. |
| Grape Variety | Malvazia |
| Drinking window | Now - ∞ |
| Serveren bij | Served between 15-16°C, ideal with chocolate-based desserts, dried fruit and nuts, or enjoyed as a digestif after the meal. |
| Alc. | 20.0% |
| Vinification | Fortified wine (cessation of the fermentation process by adding alcohol). |
| Ripening | Long aging in old barrels (Canteiro) in an oxidative environment (barrels are never refilled). |
What the critics say
JancisRobinson.com
18,5/ 20
Tasted 16-11-2023
Drink: any time
Drink: any time
RS 118 g/l, TA 9.1 g/l.
Fantastic tension from the minute this wine explodes out the starting blocks. This blazes across the palate, sleek muscle, grace and fiercely racy. Toffee apple, dried tobacco leaf, candied pineapple and pecan granola. And yet there are some very pretty, delicate apple-puree and sweet pear notes as well. Fresh fruit as well as dried fruit. The flavours fill full and ebb back like moon-drawn tides: richly sweet and intense dried apricots, then dry and tight and spiced. The finish is as fragrant as a fine cigar, just cut, only just lit. Exquisitely, almost painfully vivid.
— Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com
The producer
Pereira D'Oliveira Vinhos Lda.
In the hands of the same family since 1850, now in its fifth generation. D'Oliveira keeps 1.5 million litres of old Madeira in cask, with vintages reaching deep into the 19th century: classic Madeira, made the way it used to be.