1972 Barbeito Malmsey Vintage Madeira sweet

€ 530.00

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, nutty, raisin-like fruit, caramel in older years.

Food-pairing

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

Grapes: Malmsey

The sweetest Madeira style is made from this. There are two types, malvasia and malvasia candida. Malvasia candida grows closest to the ocean and has its origins in Greece. A beautiful legend about the malmsey is that of the Duke of Clarence who preferred death by drowning in a barrel of malmsey to death by sword. Blandy's has named one of its 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 early ripening malvasia, malvazia or malmsey, can only be found in the South, on low-lying vineyards at an altitude of 150-200m, close to the ocean.

Alcohol content

20%

Store & Serve

Always store a Madeira wine upright.

The acids of Madeira 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, and then enters a reductive environment at bottling. 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, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any left - than when the bottle was opened.

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Tags : Madeira - Barbeito