The nose shows a surprisingly bright nature with dried tropical fruits, just there mint and dulce de leche, also some light nut, dusty baking spices, and truffle. The palate is moderate and less anxious and more focused with spice, dried fruits & oak barrel
Because of the sweet style, this is the ideal wine for beginners, the wine is medium sweet and aromatic with a nice balance between sweet and sour. Aromas: dried fruit, plums, chocolate, toffee, vanilla, nut dessert and raisin-like fruit.
Food-pairing
Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal. Dried fruits.
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: Boal (Bual)
Boal is the Portuguese name, Bual is the English name - synonymous is Bual de Madeira or Boal Cachudo - is mainly found in the south of the island at altitudes between 100 and 300m and in the North near São Vicente.
Alcoholcontent
20%
Store & Serve
Always keep a Madeira upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down
Serving: 18 ° C
Madeira is a wine that has ripened for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment when bottling. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be kept almost unlimited, since the air has no influence on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if it remains - than when the bottle is opened.
Critics & Awards
17,5/20 - Jancis Robinson Tasted: 19-Oct-2011
17,5/20 - Revista de Vinhos
Tasted: 01-Oct-2014
89/100 - Wine Spectator
Tasted: 30-Apr-1999
93/100 - CellarTracker (6 notes)