Amber colour with green reflexes, crystalline and bright. On the nose have an exuberant caracteristic bouquet, notes of exotic wood, toasted confectionery with candied fruits, spices and smoked notes. Sweet, smoth and dense, good concentration with excellent freshness, long aftertaste of brandy, spices and honey.
    
Food-pairing 
slightly chilld 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).
   

Amber colour with green reflexes, crystalline and bright. On the nose have an exuberant caracteristic bouquet, notes of exotic wood, toasted confectionery with candied fruits, spices and smoked notes. Sweet, smoth and dense, good concentration with excellent freshness, long aftertaste of brandy, spices and honey.

    

Food-pairing 

slightly chilld 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. 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

21%

pH: 3,48 

 

Store & Serve

Always keep a Madeira wine upright.

The acids of Madeira 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 for several years in an oxidative environment, 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 some left - than when opening the bottle. 

Critics & Awards

19/20 - Jancis Robinson  Tasted: Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com, August 2024

Starting to turn rose mahogany in colour, this bone-dry-tasting wine is a slam-and-judder of storm. It's ginger root and rain-soaked peat and storm-slashed rocks and salt on bleeding lips. It's rust and tamarind and the roar of a restless black sea crashing, curling, foaming around jagged rocks. When you taste this wine, you taste it in your chest, in your breath, in your lungs. It's exact. Uncompromising. Like a Sylvia Plath poem in a glass.

 

Producer: Blandy

Region: Madeira