1850 DOliveira Verdelho Vintage Madeira - medium dry
€ 3,085.00
Gives a fruity style with a nice balance between acidity and sweetness and does not have that high acidity of sercial. In the nose dried fruit, some nutty and honey, sometimes in the taste some coffee and chocolate.
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: cottage cheese, mature cheeses, sweet, nutty cheeses.
Fish: smoked salmon, shrimp cocktail with granny smith, mussels, sardines.
Meat: almost all types of meat: chicken, duck, pork, plain steak. Classic and perfect with smoked ham.
Typical Madeira dish: swordfish with banana and passion fruit. Baked pineapple.
Grapes: Verdelho 100%
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, mainly in the North and ripens late. The grape is the main ingredient for Rainwater.
Alcoholcontent
20%
Store & Serve
Always store Madeira wine upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they will attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down
Serving: 18°C
Madeira is a wine that matured for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment during bottling. 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 has any effect on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any left - than when the bottle was opened.
Critics & Awards
95/100 - CellarTracker (14 notes)
Producent: D'Oliveira
Regio: Madeira
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