2008 Barbeito Malvasia Colheita Madeira 50 cl medium sweet

€ 43.50 / 50 cl

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Floral notes, honey, beeswax, yellow fruit jam and candied fruit. Rich and smooth palate, with a persistent honey flavor. Well balanced between sweetness and acidity with a round and long finish.

Barbeito is one of the most forward-thinking companies on Madeira as well as being one of the youngest, being founded in the 1940's by Mário Barbeito. When Mário died in 1985, the company was taken forward by his daughter, Dona Manuela de Freitas, whose two sons, Ricardo and Miguel joined the firm in 1991. Today, Ricardo is in day to day charge of Vinhos Barbeito, his mother having retired in the early 1990s, and his brother looking after other family business interests.

  

Food-pairing 

Excellent as a digestif, with Christmas pudding, foie-gras, caramel pudding, chocolate, crystallized fruit and cheese. 

   

Grapes: Malmsey (Malvasia)

The grapes of this Malvasia were harvested before reaching full maturity, with the aim of obtaining a higher initial acidity. Vinification was done with musts obtained from three vineyards in São Jorge. By halting fermentation at a semi-sweet state through the addition of vinic alcohol, the main objective was to retain the natural sugar of the wine. After 6 months in contact with the lees, the wine was racked in March 2009 and placed in 3 old French oak casks with a capacity of 650 liters each. After 14 years of aging, among those 3 casks, Ricardo Diogo Freitas chose number 547E as his favorite for this bottling. Bottled in January 2023. 1149 bottles 

 

Alcohol content

19% 

 

Store & Serve

Keep a Madeira wine always upright.

The acids of Madeira are so strong that they affect the cork when the bottle is kept lying down

Serve at 13°-14°C.

  

Madeira is a wine that matured in an oxidative environment for several years, and then comes to bottling in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be preserved almost unlimited, as the air is no longer affecting Madeira wines. It is even so that after a few months the wine tastes better than when the bottle is just opened.

 

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