Malvasia FC 1880 and a Sercial Cunha 1890. Both Madeira.
Both older than the car, the airplane, and pretty much everyone’s great-grandparents. 🤯
What blows my mind about Madeira isn’t just that bottles like this exist it’s that they’re still alive. Oxidative aging, heat, time. A 19thcentury Sercial still cuts with that bone-dry acidity and vinagrinho. The Malvasia goes the other way, caramel, dried figs, old wood, something almost like aged balsamic but with a finish that won’t quit.
Impressive!!
by Careless_Scientist57
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wild to think these bottles have been sitting around longer than most countries have existed
remarkable. where did you have these?
Thats so rediculous. Amazing.