2007 D'Oliveira Verdelho Colheita Madeira - medium dry

€ 95.00

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Amount

Gives a fruity style with a nice balance between acidity and sweetness and does not have the high acidity of sercial. Dried fruit in the nose, some nuts and honey, sometimes some coffee and chocolate in the taste

 

Food-pairing 

As an aperitif, oxtail soup (no, not in it, but with it!), shrimp cream soup, asparagus cream soup, lobster with tarragon vinaigrette, Caesar salad, smoked duck with mango chutney, pigeon with macadamia and star anise, Peking duck to name but a few.

Nuts: hazelnuts. Cheese: quark, matured cheeses, sweet, nutty cheeses.

Fish: smoked salmon, shrimp cocktail with granny smith, mussels, sardines.

Meat: almost all types of meat: chicken, duck, pork, natural steak. Classic and perfect with smoked ham.

Typical Madeira dish: swordfish with banana and passion fruit and fried pineapple.

   

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 matures late. The grape is the main ingredient for Rainwater.

 

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: 18 ° C

  

Madeira is a wine that has matured for several years in an oxidative environment, before being 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, as the air no longer affects Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is still left - than when opening the bottle.

 

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Tags : Madeira - D'Oliveira