1988 Justino's Malmsey Vintage Madeira

€ 820.00

This Madeira has a deep amber color. Characteristic notes reminiscent of nuts, syrup and vanilla. Rounded, beautiful and balanced on the palate, pleasant notes of roasted walnuts and caramel. Full Madeira with a good structure, acidity and sweetness. A stylish addition to sophisticated desserts and cakes.

Food-pairing

It is an excellent addition to pastries, fruit, chocolate, pralines, hard cheeses, ice cream, caramel & coffee desserts.

Druiven: Malmsey

The sweetest style Madeira is made from this. There are two types, the malvasia and the malvasia candida. The malvasia candida grows closest to the ocean and originated in Greece. A nice legend about the malmsey is that of the Duke of Clarence who preferred death by drowning in a barrel of malmsey to death by a sword. Blandy's named one of his wines after him. And in Shekespeare's work there are numerous references to Malmsey. Even Napoleon took some malmsey from the island. In the 19th century, malmsey became even more fashionable and there was even a "morning malmsey" to start the day.

The sweet and precocious malvasia, called malvazia or even malmsey, can only be found in the South, on low-lying vineyards at 150-200m, near the ocean.

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 lying down

Serve at 18 °C

Madeira is a wine that has matured in an oxidative environment for several years, before being bottled in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be kept almost indefinitely, as the air no longer affects Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is still left - than when opening the bottle.

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Tags : Madeira - Justino's