1903 Barbeito AR Sercial Vintage Madeira dry

€ 1,550.00

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The Sercial Madeira wine is the lightest in colour, beautiful golden yellow, aromatic, floral and has citrus notes in youth that become more nutty after a while and even remind of older Riesling. Ginger is a signature aroma. Due to its high acidity, this is the best aperitif wine. One of the best Sercials I've had the pleasure to taste. Light tan with a hint of green on the rim. A wonderful piercing nose that sears the hairs in your nose (in a good way). Multi-dimensional mouth, with burnt sugar, tea and assorted dried fruits. Ridiculously long finsh that gripped like a pit bull. OUTSTANDING!

   

Food-pairing 

lightly chilled as an aperitif with olives and almonds or with sushi, oysters, squid carpaccio with tomato-coriander vinaigrette, salmon tartare, proscuitto with ham, crab & fresh tuna (sashimi).

   

Grapes: Serial

Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. So a serial is always dry! This means that alcohol is only added at the very end of the fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented. The late-maturing breed is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog strangler) because of its extremely high acidity in its youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually matures for quite a long time. Sercial comes from the highest vineyards in the south, at about 600-800m or in the cooler North.

Sercial is reminiscent of Riesling.

 

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

Serve at 14 - 16°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.

 

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