Madeira Crimea from Massandra

This is Madeira Crimea 2006 from the Massandra Winery, a fortified wine made from Shabash, Sercial, Albillo and some local white grape varieties. The young wine is aged in half-full oak barrels for four years in platforms which are open to the sun. I managed to persuade the people at the stall in the 2012 Wine Fair to sell me a bottle of their wares and they sold me this bottle, after they said they have run out of opened bottles for me to taste. I finally tasted it over the Xmas New Year period. Golden tea with a sherry nutty sweet acid nose, it was sweet nutty and complex on the palate, with an acid nutty backbone right to the very finish. There were some great adventures with pitching it against various foods, but that's another tidbit.