1990 DOliveira Malmsey Vintage Madeira - sweet

€ 255.00

Malmsey is "meditation wine" with which you can finish a good dinner perfectly. Flavors: honey, raisins, caramel, vanilla. An old Malmsey has aromas of toffee, vanilla and sometimes beef stock.

Food-pairing

It is an excellent addition to pastries, fruit, chocolate, pralines, hard cheeses, ice cream, caramel & coffee desserts.

Grapes: Malmsey

The sweetest style Madeira is made from this. There are two types, the malvasia and the malvasia candida. The malvasia candida grows closest to the ocean and has its origin in Greece. A nice legend about the malmsey is that of the Duke of Clarence who preferred death by drowning in a barrel of malmsey over death by a sword. Blandy's has named one of his wines after him. And Shekespeare's work contains numerous references to Malmsey. Even Napoleon took some Malmsey from the island. In the 19th century malmsey became even more fashionable and there was even a "morning malmsey" to start the day.

The sweet and precocious malvasia, called malvazia or still malmsey, can only be found in the South, on low-lying vineyards at 150-200m height, near the ocean.

Alcoholcontent

20%

Bewaren en serveren

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

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

Serving: 18 ° C

Madeira is a wine that has been aged 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 has any influence on Madeira wines. In fact, after months - if any - remainder, the wine tastes better than when you open the bottle.