1964 Justinos Malmsey Vintage Madeira - sweet

€ 770.00

These are the top wines of Madeira. The maturation potential is almost unlimited.

This Madeira of the highest quality must have been in barrel for at least 20 years plus two years in bottle before sale can take place. This wine used to be called vintage Madeira. A frasqueira must consist entirely of one of the top varieties listed on the label, along with the harvest and bottling year. Frasqueiras always come from one good harvest year. They have undergone a mild temperature treatment and have been stored for a long time in wooden barrels. After bottling, the quality of frasqueira no longer changes.

Given their uniqueness, these Madeira wines are inventoried.

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.

Grapes: Malvasia - Malmsey

Together with the muscat grape, the malvasia is one of the most historic grapes. Throughout the centuries, name and character have been maintained unchanged. However, Malvasia has become best known in later centuries under its English name Malmsey. Nowadays this only means the sweetest kind of Madeira, made from the grape variety Malvasia Blanca.

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.