2008 Barbeito Tinta Negra Colheita Madeira 50 cl medium dry

€ 27.00 / 50 cl

This wine originates from the same single vineyard of Tinta Negra that I produced the 1997 bottling. We harvested half the grapes a week before they reached full maturation, thus obtaining higher initial acidity levels. This wine was aged along the last 9 years by the “canteiro” method in old French oak casks. In June of 2010 we bottled 3061 bottles (500ml) all individually numbered.- Barbeito. It is a medium dry style, golden to brown in colour and has loads of walnut, spice and fruitcake notes on the nose and the palate. There is good acidity on the palate and hints of natural sweetness.

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

Lightly chilled as an aperitif. They can be served with appetizers, smoked fish such as salmon, caviar, olives, dried ham, duck and tasty dried fruits and nuts such as hazelnuts & almonds. Also game terrine or Yorkshire Pudding and onion gravy.

Grapes: Tinta Negra Mole

The Tinta Negra Mole grape is the most planted grape of the Portuguese island of Madeira and thus accounts for eighty percent of Madeira's production. Although fine wines are made, he does not belong to the highest rated grapes of the island.

The Spaniards call him Negramoll. Originally from Andalusia, he is called Molar. But the grape is mostly known of the Spanish island of Tenerife and even more famous as Madeira grape. The Tinta Negra Mole generally produces quite light and soft red wines. They have an exuberant fragrance and can best drunk young. As madeira wine it is totally different, then it is sweet with thick brown juice, and can be kept endlessly

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 18 ° 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.

Critics & Awards

16,5/20 - Revista de Vinhos

17/20 - Vinho Grandes Escolhas - Light golden colour. Aroma of crystallized fruits, yellow fruit jam, dried flower, ripe citrus and pistachio. Delicate honeyed palate, nice balanced acidity, finish long and fresh.

Tags : Madeira - Barbeito