2006 Barbeito Verdelho Colheita Madeira medium dry

€ 42.50 / 50 cl

This single cask 4 D+E madeira wine has a gold color with greenish highlights. Fresh pine aromas, ripe citrus, green tobacco leaf, cloves, a bit of smoke and quite nutty. Well-structured and mineral, with a constant dryness and a magnificent acidity. Spiced and lingering finishing.

Food-pairing

Slightly chilled as an aperitif. They can be served with starters, with smoked fish such as salmon, caviar, olives, dried ham, duck and tasty dry fruits and nuts such as hazelnuts, almonds or nuts.

Grapes: Verdelho

Also known as Gouveio in the rest of Portugal. Is the most widely planted white variety. The style has a light sweetness and is off-dry / medium dry. Planted at altitudes of 400-600, especially in the North, and ripens late. The grape is the main ingredient for Rainwater.

This single cask 4 D + E Verdelho madeira, comes from grapes from the vineyard of Mr. Agostinho Andrade junior, grapes from the same vineyard as the 1996 Verdelho and Verdelho 2000. Ricardo has been working with Agostinho since 1994 and buys his grapes. The vineyard is located in the north of the island near São Vicente. The Madeira was bottled in June 2020, 761 500ml bottles came out of the barrel, all individually numbered. Due to the northern location of the vineyard, the wine has very nice, explosive acids. Ripening was done with the traditional Canteiro process.

Alcoholcontent

19,% vol

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

Madeira's acids are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored horizontally

Serving: 10-12 °C. This wine was filtered and does not require decanting

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

Tags : Madeira - Barbeito