Colheitas Pereira D’Oliveiras Malvazia Sweet (bottled 2016, 16yo) 2000 Size::6 Bottle Case Secondary flavours of spice

Secondary flavours of spice

it can be a wine that requires a certain degree of patience to fully appreciate although I've got to say

the wine opens to the sensation of freshly picked red berries: strawberries

Neil Empson and renowned oenologist Franco Bernabei are the two names behind Monte Antico

Colheitas Pereira D’Oliveiras Malvazia Sweet (bottled 2016, 16yo) 2000 Size::6 Bottle Case Secondary flavours of spiceAromatic interest is great here, with complex tea smells lifting out of caramelised date richness. There's a waft of herb and grilled bread, nuts and polished timbers all adding significant interest to the sweetness. The palate is rich and lush, perfectly balancing old concentrated pruney sweetness with fresher, grapier, perfumed and lifted sweetness, yet no heaviness or cloying. There's graceful earthiness in the sweetness and the acid outruns the