1975 Cossart Gordon Verdelho Vintage Madeira

€ 355.00

Cossart Gordon’s Vntage Verdelho 1975 is a single harvest Madeira. This wine was aged for 29 years in seasoned American oak casks in the traditional ‘Canteiro’ system, whereby the casks were gradually transferred from the top floors of the lodge, where it is naturally warmer, to the middle floors and eventually to the ground floor where it is cooler. The wine was regularly racked and when it reached the desired stage of maturity it was bottled. Only 2,667 bottles of this wine were released.

Intense and complex characteristic bouquet of dried fruit, wood and orange peel. semi-dry and fresh with a long and delicious aftertaste

Food-pairing

As an aperitif, oxtail soup, shrimp cream soup, asparagus cream soup, lobster with tarragon vinaigrette, Caesar salad, smoked duck with mango chutney, pigeon with macadamia and star anise, peking duck to name a few.

Nuts: hazelnuts.

Cheese: curd cheese, ripened cheeses, sweet, nutty cheeses.

Fish: smoked salmon, shrimp cocktail with Granny Smith, mussels, sardines.

Meat: almost all types of meat: chicken, duck, pork, natural steak. Classic and perfect with smoked ham.

Typical Madeira dish: swordfish with banana and passion fruit. Baked pineapple.

Grapes: Verdelho

In the rest of Portugal also known as Gouveio. Is the most planted white variety. The style has a slight sweetness and is off-dry / medium dry. Is planted at heights of 400-600, especially in the North and ripens late. The grape is the main ingredient for Rainwater

Alcoholcontent

20%

pH: 3,46

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down

Serve at 14 - 16 °C

Madeira is a wine matured 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 there remains - than when the bottle is opened