1990 Blandy Sercial Colheita Madeira dry

€ 295.00 / 50 cl

This excellent dry Madeira wine is amber in color with golden reflections, clear as crystal. Aroma with a characteristic bouquet, ethereal notes of cognac infusion with candied citrus fruits, spices such as ginger, nutty and dried fruits. In the mouth it is dry, very fresh and leaves a long sweet aftertaste of bitter orange and old cognac. - Producer

The Sercial Madeira wine is the lightest in color, beautiful golden yellow, aromatic, floral and has citrus notes in its youth that become a bit nuttier after a while and are even reminiscent of older Riesling. Ginger is a distinctive aroma. Due to its high acidity, this is the best aperitif wine

Food-pairing

slightly chilled (10°C) 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. A serial is therefore always dry! This means that alcohol is only added at the very end of fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented. The late-maturing variety is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog strangler) because of its extremely high acidity in its youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually ages 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 store a Madeira wine upright.

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

Serve as an aperitif at 10°C and 16°C as a dessert wine.

Madeira is a wine that has been aged for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment at bottling. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be stored almost indefinitely, as the air no longer affects Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any left - than when the bottle was opened.

Critics & Awards

94/100 - Wine Enthusiast Tasted 01-11-2023

An intense, smooth Madeira, this has a fine bite of nuttiness and acidity. The wine's blend of ripeness and total dryness has aged well, giving an all-around drinkable wine. — Roger Voss

Tags: Madeira - Blandy