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Subregion | Portugal > Madeira |
Type | Fortified |
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My first thought, heretic as I am (or perhaps it’s my Scottish whisky-master-blender heritage) was ‘Islay’. Smoky, peaty with the rich glow of whisky on the nose. But in the mouth, the wine flicks a salty iodine-stained finger at whisky and turns liquid ruby shot through with bronze, copper, gold. A shimmering, glimmering pearlescence with the lustre of liquid copper, of tulip petals in senescence, of hawthorn berries turning to the cold milk-white of winter light. Glossy red fruits, the fiery bite of ginger, autumn leaves, an old oak door resisting your hands as you push it back into the secret spaces it stands guard for. A liquid drop of chipped amber, the flare of sunrise in a dewdrop.