Sercial is the driest style of Madeira wine, and is pale in colour, and quite lightly perfumed. The wine matures into a wonderfully mellow but dry wine (and not as crisp and salty as Manzanilla…

Bual is a sweeter style of Madeira. Stil quite youthful this 1977 will need a feew days of decantering.

D'Oliveira - Madeira Terrantez 1988 (750ml) available at Pogo's Wine & Spirits in Dallas, TX

Terrantez is the rarest of grapes on Madeira, producing spicy, yet fresh and slightly sweet dessert wines. D'Oliveira makes some of the very best examples. This wine, as is the case with vintage,…

1977 D'Oliveira, Madeira Terrantez. One of the greatest of the classic Madeira shippers, and one of the few to survive from the pre-phylloxera era. Founded in 1820, and today housed in cellars that…

D'Oliveiras Boal - Vintage Madeira 1968 (750ml) available at Empire State Of Wine in New York, NY

Unique, but little understood, Madeira comes from the mid-Atlantic island of the same name, and is the world's most famous "cooked" wine. Madeira undergoes a singular, slow process of natural…

The high level of acidity makes Sercial almost undrinkable in its youth. In the 16th century, this wine was called "Esgana Cão" - dog-strangler. To obtain a maximum aroma as a…