1987 Cossart Gordon Boal Vintage Madeira MELCHIOR

€ 3,500.00 / 18 L

Cossart Gordon's Vintage Bual 1987 is a Single Harvest Madeira. Has aged for 29 years in American oak barrels in the traditional 'Canteiro' system, where the barrels are gradually transferred from the upper floors of the lodge, where it is naturally warmer, to the middle floors and eventually to the ground floor where it is cooler.

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. This Vintage Madeira was harvested in 1987 and bottled in 2016.

Melchior = 18 l = 24 bottles of wine

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

21,1%

pH: 3,38

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

98/100 - Decanter World Wine Awards Tasted: 01-Jan-2017

95/100 - Wine Enthusiast

Tags : Madeira - Cossart Gordon