D’Oliveiras 5 Year Old Medium Dry Madeira Current 750ml

Mixed dried fruits and nuts in a soft nose, all gooey and golden. There are dates and jar plums with fine old treacle from a tin can, a flourish of billy tea, and touches of aromatic timber and baking spice. Has a nicely defined palate with fruit extract and developing abstract secondaries providing a drying rail and grooving the palate. Succulence is nicely controlled the sweetness only makes it halfway through the palate before the acid train takes over but by then the mouth-feel is up and about and sugar has done its trick.