1976 Blandy Boal Vintage Madeira medium sweet

€ 415.00

A concentrated semi-sweet taste, very round, a long finish with hints of spices, dried fruits and exotic woods.

These are the top wines of Madeira. The ripening potential is almost unlimited.

This madeira of the highest quality must have been aged for at least 20 years in barrel plus two years in bottle before it can be sold. This wine used to be called vintage madeira. A frasqueira must consist entirely of one of the top varieties listed on the label, along with the harvest and bottling year. Frasqueiras always come from one good harvest year. They have undergone a mild temperature treatment and have been stored in wooden barrels for a long time. After bottling, the quality of frasqueira no longer changes. These madeira wines are inventoried, given their uniqueness.

Food-pairing

Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal. Dried fruits.

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

Grapes: Boal - Bual

Boal is the Portuguese name, Bual is the English name - synonymous is Bual de Madeira or Boal Cachudo - is mainly found in the south of the island at altitudes between 100 and 300m and in the north near São Vicente.

Winemaker

Blandy - Madeira Wine Association

Alcoholcontent

20%

Store & Serve

Always store a Madeira wine upright.

The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork when the bottle is stored horizontally

To serve : 18°C

Madeira is a wine that matured for several years in an oxidative environment, before bottling in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be kept almost indefinitely, as the air no longer affects Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months – if there is anything left – than when it opened the bottle.