1954 Cossart Gordon Sercial Vintage Madeira
The Sercial Madeira wine is the lightest in colour, beautiful golden yellow, aromatic, floral and has citrus notes in youth that become more nutty after a while and even remind of older Riesling. Ginger is a signature aroma. Due to its high acidity, this is the best aperitif wine.
Intense and complex characteristic bouquet of dried fruits, wood and orange peel. Dry and fresh with a long and delicious aftertaste
Food-pairing
slightly chilled 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. So a serial is always dry! This means that alcohol is only added at the very end of the fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented. The late-maturing breed is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog strangler) because of its extremely high acidity in its youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually matures 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 when the bottle is stored horizontally
Serving : 14 - 16°C
Madeira is a wine aged for several years in an oxidative environment, before bottling 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 anything left – than when it opened the bottle.
Critics & Awards
Tags : Madeira - Cossart Gordon
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