Gives a fruity style with a nice balance between acids and sweet and does not have that high acidity of sercial. In the nose dried fruit, some nutty and honey, sometimes in the taste some coffee and chocolate
Food-pairing
As an aperitif, oxtail soup, Shrimp cream soup, asparagus cream soup, lobster with tarragon vinaigrette, Caesar salad, smoked duck with mango chutney, pigeon with macadamia and star anise, peking duck to name but a few.
Nuts: hazelnuts.
Cheese: cottage cheese, ripened cheeses, sweet & nutty cheeses.
Fish: smoked salmon, shrimp cocktail with granny smith, mussels, sardines.
Meat: almost all types of meat: chicken, duck, pork, natural steak. Classic and perfect with smoked ham.
Typical Madeira dish: swordfish with banana and passion fruit. Baked pineapple
Grapes: Verdelho
In the rest of Portugal also known as Gouveio. Is the most planted white variety. The style has a slight sweetness and is off-dry / medium dry. Is planted at heights of 400-600, especially in the North and ripens late. The grape is the main ingredient for Rainwater.
Alcoholcontent
20%
Store & Serve
Always keep a Madeira wine upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down
Serving: 18 ° C
Madeira is a wine that has ripened for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment when bottling. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be kept almost unlimited, since the air has no influence on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if it remains - than when the bottle is opened.