Because of the sweet style, this is the ideal wine for starters, the wine is medium sweet and aromatic with a nice balance between sweet and sour. Aromas: dried fruit, prunes, chocolate, toffee, vanilla, nutty, raisin-like fruit, caramel in older years.
Food-pairing
Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal
Crème Brulee, caramel desserts based on apples, apricots, pecans, cherries, almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs & vanilla ice cream desserts.
The excellent companion to a pipe, cigar or aromatic tobacco.
Druiven: Boal - Bual
Boal is the Portuguese name, Bual is the English name - synonym is Bual de Madeira or Boal Cachudo - can be found mainly in the south of the island at altitudes between 100 and 300m and in the north near São Vicente.
Alcoholcontent
19%
Store & Serve
Always store a Madeira wine upright.
Madeira's acids are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored horizontally
Serve : 18°C
Madeira is a wine that has been aged 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, after months - if there is any left - the wine tastes better than when the bottle was opened.
Critics & Awards
92/100 - CellarTracker (7 notes)
90/100 - Wine Spectator
Tasted: 31-Oct-1999
Gold - International Wine Challenge, 2013