Terrantez Madeira 1975 Cossart Gordon

Classification	Cru Classe
Type	Fortified
Brand	Cossart Gordon
Vintage	1975
Country	Portugal
Region	Madeira
Volume	0,5
Condition	Perfect
Label	Perfect
Stock	4

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (91)

Bottled in 2020, Cossart Gordon's 1975 Terrantez opens in the glass with complex tertiary aromas of spices, beeswax furniture polish, dried fruits, Cognac, toasted pecans and brown sugar. Medium to full-bodied, deep and nicely layered, it's dry and elegantly austere, its structural bones poking through its mid-palate flesh.

Jancis Robinson (18.50)

Most of Madeira's rare Terrantez vineyards are found in Calheta, Câmara de Lobos and Funchal, on the south side of the island. TA 9.44 g/l, VA 1.14 g/l, pH 3.4, RS 95 g/l. Bottled 2020, the equivalent of just over 1,000 75-cl bottles.
Copper brown. Smells savoury-dark-sweet, like spiced nuts in treacle. The aroma is horizontal, a board, freshly planed wood, sandalwood. Then I put it in my mouth and my spine went curlicue. Waves of goosebumps. Voltage in silk in sherbet in ice in white-hot embers in anger in wild-wild-wild joy. Something almost bacon-like. Lime pickle. Saline, caper, ginger root, turmeric root. Dried apricots, chewy in its texture, sherbets in its acidity, so cracklingly alive that my skin felt like it was hovering millimetres above my body. Fireworks in the mouth. A exploding green line, the extreme essence of lime pulling a central cord from start to finish. Burnt sugar. Aloe. Laurel. Words, for wines like this, are like taking photographs of sunrises. Why we bother is a testament to our longing to share something beautiful, to give. But, like photographs of sunrise, words fail, for wines like this. (TC)

BOW (8.75)