As a Portuguese national I feel very proud for our fortified dessert/cheese wines: Port and Madeira. And as much deceived by our successive national governments' negligence: they fail to promote these two great value added wine products. Two important national assets left to their own fates. Unfortunately, most people in the world do not identify Madeira and Port with Portugal. Although these fine wines have been produced, bottled and shipped there for more than 250 years now.
D’Oliveira is one of the classic Madeira shippers, and one of the few to survive.
Having dinner in London with Guy Buisseret and Antonio Prida, at Pall Mall's Oxford & Cambridge Club, we had the superb 1968 D'Oliveira Reserva Boal with cheese. This 40 years old fine wine was a nice surprise for my friends coming from Europe and America, much to my satisfaction.
