1968 Blandy Sercial Vintage Madeira dry

€ 420.00

The sercial madei wine is the lightest in color, beautiful golden yellow, aromatic, floral and in the youth has citrus fruits that after a while become more nutty and even remind of older riesling. Ginger is a characteristic aroma. Because of the high acidity, this is a great aperitif wine

Only a limited number of bottles of this wine were released. Blandy’s Vintage Sercial 1968 is a single harvest Madeira. This wine was aged for 38 years in seasoned American oak casks in the traditional ‘Canteiro’ system, whereby the casks were gradually transferred from the top floors of the lodge, where it is naturally warmer, to the middle floors and eventually to the ground floor where it is cooler. The wine was regularly racked and when it reached the desired stage of maturity it was bottled.

Food-pairing

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

Grapes: Sercial

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

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 still remains - than when the bottle is opened.