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1988 Barbeito Sercial Vintage Madeira dry - Manuel E. Fernandes

€ 330.00 / 50 cl

Gold color with greenish highlights. Fresh and mineral bouquet, resin, smoked wood, hint of leather, lemon zest, and dried figs. Salty touch on a fine and elegant palate, balanced, with a fresh and pure acidity. Finish almost with an endless dryness.

Mr. Manuel Eugénio Fernandes was born in 1906 in the parish of Seixal, on Madeira Island and passed way in 2003 in Funchal. Since the foundation of Vinhos Barbeito, in 1946, and for many years Mr. Manuel Eugénio Fernandes supplied Sercial grapes to our company. He had a very special relationship with my grandfather and my mother, maintaining weekly visits to our old winery. This Sercial 1988 is originated in grapes produced in the Seixal vineyards. It is the first wine of a series of bottling that pay tribute to Mr. Manuel Eugénio as a way of enduring the long-term relationship between our families. In August 2017, 650 bottles have been filled, all individually numbered.

Food-pairing

lightly chilled as an aperitif with olives and almonds or with sushi, oysters, octopus carpaccio with tomato-coriander servinaigrette, salmon tartar, proscuitto with ham, crab & fresh tuna (sashimi).

Grapes: Sercial

Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. A sercial is always dry! This means that only at the end of the fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented, alcohol is added. The late race is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog resident) because of his extremely high acidity in his youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually ripens quite long. Sercial comes from the highest vineyards in the south, about 600-800m or in the cooler North.

Grapes from various quality vineyards from Seixal.

Alcoholcontent

20%

pH: 3,1

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

Serving: 14 - 16 ° 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.

This Frasqueira was filtered, but over time in bottle may form a slight deposit.

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