The sercial madeira wine is the lightest in color, beautiful golden yellow, aromatic, floral and has citrus notes in youth that become a bit more nutty after a while and even remind of older Riesling. Ginger is a characteristic aroma. Due to the high acidity, this is the best aperitif wine.
   
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).
   

The sercial madeira wine is the lightest in color, beautiful golden yellow, aromatic, floral and has citrus notes in youth that become a bit more nutty after a while and even remind of older Riesling. Ginger is a characteristic aroma. Due to the high acidity, this is the best aperitif wine.

   

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: 100% Sercial

Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. So a sercial 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 known as "Esgana Cão" (dog stranger) because of its extremely high acidity in its youth. Because of the almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually ripens for a long time. Sercial comes from the highest vineyards in the south, at about 600-800m or in the cooler North. The Sercial may be a mutant of the German Riesling

 

Alcoholcontent

20% 

 

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

Madeira's acids are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored horizontally

Serving: 14 - 16 °C

 

Madeira is a wine that has been aged for several years in an oxidative environment, after which it is bottled in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be stored almost indefinitely, since the air no longer has any influence on Madeira wines. In fact, after months - if still some remain, the wine tastes better than when you open the bottle.

 

Critics & Awards

    

Producer: Barbeito

Region: Madeira