2009 Justino Malmsey Colheita Single Cask

€ 41.40

Amber colored with greenish nuances. A complex aroma of caramel, toffee, spices, tea leaves and notes of cigars. The taste is sweet, soft and rich. Ripe figs and some minerality in the aftertaste. Oenologists are Dina Luís & Juan Teixeira

Food-pairing

Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal

Crème Brulee, caramel desserts based on apples, apricots, pecans, cherries, almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs & vanilla ice cream desserts. The excellent companion to a pipe, cigar or aromatic tobacco.

Grapes: Malvasia - Malmsey

Together with the muscat grape, malvasia is one of the most historic grapes. Throughout the ages, his name and character have been maintained unchanged. Malvasia, however, became the best known in later centuries under his English name Malmsey. Nowadays it means only the sweetest kind of madeira, made from the grape variety Malvasia bianca.

These wines have their own peculiar characteristics that were given to them by the respective casks where they were aged for a long time. Due to their distinct qualities, these wines are, after careful selection by the oenology team, bottled exclusively with wine from a single cask and which at the time of bottling had aged for at least 15 years in oak casks. They are generically identified by the date of harvest and the variety from which they originate. The exceptional quality of these wines derives mainly from the particularity of the cask (history, age and capacity), as well as its location in the cellar during the period in which the wine was aging. All of this contributes to the wines having different characteristics from the wines that initially made up the blend. Justino's Madeira reserves only the best barrels for its Single Casks.

Alcoholcontent

20%

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down

Serving: 14 - 16 °C

Madeira is a wine that has ripened for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment when bottling. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be kept almost unlimited, since the air has no influence on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is still left in the bottle - than when the bottle is opened.

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Tags : Madeira - Justino's