1997 Justino Sercial Colheita Madeira - dry

€ 53.00

This 1997 Madeira wine has a medium golden colour with hues of green and silver. Delicately intense nose of walnuts and pecan nuts with cinnamon and figs. The palate is beautifully firm, with an off dry impression which glides across the tongue in a very sleek and focussed manner; the acidity is electric . there is also a beautiful sapid salinity, flavours of lime and yuzu with rancio elements on the long, lingering finish. A sensational example.

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: 100% 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 grape variety is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog resident) because of its 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.nte.

Alcoholcontent

19%

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: 10-12 °C

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Tags: Vinhos Justino Henriques - Madeira