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How can a madeira be 105 years old?
Gary Gillman, Toronto:
Thanks for the welcoming note !
I really enjoyed your 01 mar 03 Madeira article .
I have a bottle given to me as a gift some years ago (sourced I was told at Vintages of the LCBO [the Ontario retail monopoly]), of Madeira 1900 Boal. The label states also, "Manuel De Sousa Herdeiros, LDA - Funchal - Madeira". On the back, "crop 1900, maturity grade reachead [sic] in oak casks. Lot 5.200 litres. Bottled in 1978. The bottles are numbered from 1 to 8,000".
My question: is this "solera" production such that there would be only a...
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