1903 DOliveira Boal Vintage Madeira - medium sweet
€ 2,100.00
These vintage or frasqueira wines are the top wines of Madeira. The maturation potential is almost unlimited.
This madeira of the highest quality must have been in barrels for at least 20 years plus two years in bottles before it can be sold. This wine used to be called vintage madeira. A frasqueira must consist entirely of one of the top varieties that are mentioned on the label, together with the harvest and bottling year. Frasqueiras always come from one good harvest year. They have undergone a mild temperature treatment and have been stored in wooden barrels for a long time. After bottling, the quality of frasqueira does not change anymore. These madeira wines are inventoried, given their uniqueness.
Food-pairing
Cheeses such as blue cheeses, Stilton, Gruyere, manchego, & Emmenthal. Dried fruits.
Crème Brulee, caramel desserts made with apples, apricots, pecans, cherries, almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs & vanilla ice cream desserts.
The perfect companion to a pipe, cigar or aromatic tobacco.
Grapes: Boal (Bual)
Boal is a name given to several grape varieties grown in Portugal, primarily for the production of medium-bodied fortified wines from the island of Madeira. On many Madeira wine labels, the variety name is anglicized as Bual. Madeira Bual is generally less sweet than Malmsey, but sweeter than Sercial or Verdelho. The vines are also common in Portugal and Spain, where the fruit is used in the same way to make fortified wines. .Buckingham Palace is home to 25,000 bottles of wine, the oldest of which is a bottle from 1815.
Alcoholcontent
19,5%
Store & Serve
Always store Madeira wine upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they will attack the cork if the bottle is stored lying down
Serving: 18°C
Madeira is a wine that matured for several years in an oxidative environment, and then enters a reductive environment during bottling. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be stored almost indefinitely, as the air no longer has any effect on Madeira wines. In fact, the wine tastes better after months - if there is any left - than when the bottle was opened.
Critics & Awards
95/100 - CellarTracker (21 notes)
Producer: D'Oliveira
Region: Madeira
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