1993 H.M. Borges Sercial Vintage Madeira - dry
€ 298.00
This wine features a light amber colour with a complex aroma characterized by notes of iodine, varnish, orange zest and nuts. On the palate, it predominantly showcases flavours of nuts and beeswax. It has been aged in French and American oak barrels using the traditional canteiro process for 29 years, until its bottling in 2022.
Food-pairing
lightly chilled as an aperitif with olives and almonds or with sushi, oysters, octopus carpaccio with tomato-coriander servinaigrette, salmon tartar, proscuitto with ham, crab & fresh tuna (sashimi).
Grapes: Sercial 100%
Aged for 29 years in American and French oak barrels. Grapes from small plots of "vineyards on the property" of two producers in Jardim da Serra.
Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. A sercial is always dry! This means that only at the end of the fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented, alcohol is added. The late grape variety is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog resident) because of its extremely high acidity in his youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually ripens quite long. Sercial comes from the highest vineyards in the south, about 600-800m or in the cooler North.nte.
Alcohol content
20%
pH: 3,06
Store & Serve
Keep a Madeira wine always upright.
The acids of Madeira are so strong that they affect the cork when the bottle is kept lying down
Serve at 18 ° C
Madeira is a wine that matured in an oxidative environment for several years, and then comes to bottling in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be preserved almost unlimited, as the air is no longer affecting Madeira wines. It is even so that after a few months the wine tastes better than when the bottle is just opened.
Critics & Awards
Producer: H.M. Borges
Region: Madeira