1982 D'Oliveira Boal Vintage Madeira - medium dry

€ 326.00

These vintage or frasqueira wines are the top wines from Madeira. The ripening potential is almost unlimited.

This madeira of the highest quality must have been at least 20 years in the barrel plus two years in the bottle before the sale can take place. This wine used to be called vintage madeira. A frasqueira must consist entirely of one of the top varieties that are mentioned on the label, together with the harvest and bottling year. Frasqueira's 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. Because of their uniqueness, these Madeira wines are listed

Medium orange amber colour with 1mm clear meniscus; appealing, light coffee, almond, reminiscent of Moroccan bastilla on the nose with a hint of passion fruit; tight, silky textured, tasty, balanced, rounded, tart orange, tart passion fruit palae with a vague sense of light salt; long finish.

Food-pairing

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

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

Grapes

Boal (Bual)

Alcoholcontent

19,5%

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright. The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork when the bottle is stored lying down

Serve at 18 °C

Madeira is a wine that has matured for several years in an oxidative environment, and is then bottled in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be preserved almost indefinitely, since the air no longer has any influence on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any remaining - than when you open the bottle.

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Tags : Madeira - D'Oliveira