This Blandy's Colheita 2003 Boal Madeira wine is elegant, balanced, fortified wine with a typical Boal bouquet of vanilla, flowers and herbs. This cooling taste contrasts with the warmer toffee and caramel flavors in the aftertaste. Ready to drink now.
Food-pairing
Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal. Dried fruits. Crème Brulee, caramel desserts based on apples, apricots, pecans, cherries, almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs & 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 300m and in the North near São Vicente.
Winemaker
Blandy - Madeira Wine Association
Alcoholcontent
20%
Store & Serve
Keep a Madeira wine always upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down. Does not have to be decanted. Serving: 18 °C
To drink until 2050
Critics & Awards
92/100 - Wine Enthusiast Tasted: 6-Jan-2017
Silver - International Wine & Spirit Competition 2017 London