The H&H Verdelho 10-Year is pure Verdelho meio seco—medium-dry—aged a minimum of ten years in canteiro. Here, you enter the Garden of Earthly Delights and find yourself standing on the seashore: Apricot kernel, mandarin orange, dried honeycomb and Earl Grey tea kissed by late autumn sea smoke.

Blandy’s Sercial Vintage was aged for 49 years in seasoned American oak casks. Over the 49 years, the wine passed down from the warmer top floor of the Blandy’s Wine Lodges, the “Sotão de Amendoa” to the lower, cooler, north-facing floors of the building.

Hand-harvested. Selection of the best grapes for several weeks, according to their ripeness. Complete destemming, crushing and pressing. Fermentation in stainless steel vats at controlled temperature. Vinification carried out according to traditional methods.

The Verdelho grapes for this 1994 medium-dry Madeira from D'Oliveiras were carefully handpicked and aged by the canteiro method creating a medium sweet fortified wine with fragrant aromas of brown sugar, liquorice, soft burnt caramel, marzipan, smoky tar, and Creme Brulee.

Cossart Gordon’s Vintage Sercial 1985 is a single harvest Madeira. This wine was aged for 33 years in seasoned American oak casks in the traditional ‘Canteiro’ system, whereby the casks were gradually transferred from the top floors of the lodge, where it is naturally warmer, to the middle floors and eventually to the ground floor where it is cooler.