1989 DOliveira Sercial Vintage Madeira - dry

€ 260.00

Dry and salty on the palate, almost austere, but with a nice texture and generous with its complex aromas, characterized by spices and wood and a juicy aftertaste.

The sercial madeira wine is the lightest in color, beautiful light golden brown, aromatic, smoky, dark, caramelized bitter orange. Very long, acid-fresh finish. Due to the high acidity, this is the best aperitif wine.

Food-pairing

slightly chilled as an aperitif with olives and almonds or with sushi, oysters, squid carpaccio with tomato coriander vinaigrette, salmon tartare, proscuitto with ham, crab & fresh tuna (sashimi).

Grapes: Sercial

Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. So a sercial is always dry! This means that alcohol is only added at the very end of the fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented. The late maturing breed is also known as "Esgana Cão" (dog stranger) because of its extremely high acidity in its youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually ripens for quite a long time. Sercial comes from the highest vineyards in the south, at about 600-800m or in the cooler North.

Sercial is reminiscent of Riesling.

Alcoholcontent

20%

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

Madeira's acids 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, after which it is bottled in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be stored almost indefinitely, since the air no longer has any influence on Madeira wines. In fact, after months - if any - remainder, the wine tastes better than when you open the bottle.

Critics & Awards

Gold Outstanding - International Wine & Spirit Competition, 2018

16,5/20 - Jancis Robinson Tasted: May 2018

Light golden brown. Slightly cheesy note as well as smoky, dark, caramelised bitter orange. Dry and tangy, searing acidity but with the complex flavours to balance it out. Very long, sour-fresh finish.

93/100 - Jamie Goode

91/100 - CellarTracker

Tags : Madeira - D'Oliveira