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
Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal. Dried fruits.
Creme Brulee, caramel desserts based on apples, apricots, pecans, cherries, almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs and 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 300 m and in the North at São Vicente.
Alcoholcontent
19%
Store & Serve
Always keep a Madeira wine upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork when the bottle is stored lying down
Serve at 18 °C
Madeira is a wine that has matured for several years in an oxidative environment, and is then bottled in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be preserved almost indefinitely, since the air no longer has any influence on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any remaining - than when you open the bottle.
Critics & Awards
92/100 - International Wine and Spirit Competition 2021