Few wines are shaped by the Atlantic as intimately as those from the vineyards of Vinha da Laje, located in the island’s rugged north-west. This dry Sercial, pressed as whole bunches, was aged for seven years in individual casks within the slightly warmer conditions of Warehouse D. The result is a wine defined by remarkable freshness, vibrant acidity, and impressive length. Bottled in November 2024, this cuvée was produced in a strictly limited release of just 1,014 bottles.
Amber bright colour. Notes of exotic polished wood and lightly smoked. Aroma of dried nuts and figs. Meaty and extremely smooth. Impressive freshness after taste due to the magnificent crispy acidity.
Food-pairing
Few wines are shaped by the Atlantic as intimately as those from the vineyards of Vinha da Laje, located in the island’s rugged north-west. This dry Sercial, pressed as whole bunches, was aged for seven years in individual casks within the slightly warmer conditions of Warehouse D. The result is a wine defined by remarkable freshness, vibrant acidity, and impressive length. Bottled in November 2024, this cuvée was produced in a strictly limited release of just 1,014 bottles.
Amber bright colour. Notes of exotic polished wood and lightly smoked. Aroma of dried nuts and figs. Meaty and extremely smooth. Impressive freshness after taste due to the magnificent crispy acidity.
Food-pairing
slightly cooled 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 100%
Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. A serial is therefore 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. Due to 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.
Alcoholcontent
19%vol
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
Serving: 14 - 16 ° 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 stored 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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