2005 Barbeito Malmsey Colheita Madeira - sweet

€ 37.00 / 50 cl

A sweet, amber-tinted Madeira wine; has a sharp acidity and a long, soft delicate finish. The taste is well balanced and excessive aromas of fig and walnut. The sweet and early grapes Malvasia, Malvazia or Malmsey are only found in the South, on low-lying vineyards at 150-200m altitude, near the ocean

Food-pairing

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

Grapes: Malmsey (Malvasia)

The Malmsey or Malvasia grapes are sweet and produce rich full-bodied wines that are dark in colour. On the mouth, the bouquet reveals notes of spices and honey and taste quite wonderful and is usually bottled under the name Malmsey.

Malmsey is the wine that Madeira is most famous for, and is a dark rich wine, with a musky fragrant nose, this is a very sweet wine that lingers on the palate

Alcohol content

20%

Store & Serve

Keep a Madeira wine always upright.

The acids of Madeira are so strong that they affect the cork when the bottle is kept lying down

Serve at 18 ° C

Madeira is a wine that matured in an oxidative environment for several years, and then comes to bottling in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be preserved almost unlimited, as the air is no longer affecting Madeira wines. It is even so that after a few months the wine tastes better than when the bottle is just opened.

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Tags : Madeira - Barbeito