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DENOMINATION
Madeira D.O.P
GRAPE VARIETIES
Tinta Negra
VINEYARDS AND VINIFICATION
Grapes sourced in São Vicente area. Grapes were pressed in a continuous press.
LOT
In 1946, Mário Barbeito, founded our small island firm, to create limited quantities of bespoke Madeira wines.
In June 2010, we bottled our first Tinta Negra from cask 23. The remaining cask 24, a very old French oak one, because it had previously been used to store old wines lent to this 1995 Colheita a touch of old wine which you can “feel” in the aromas and palate with a very distinguishing acidity that just lingers almost indefinitely at the end of the mouth. In November of 2010 we bottled 988 bottles, all individually numbered.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Alcohol: 19,01% vol.
Baumé: 3,1
Total sugar: 81,8 g/l
Volatile acidity: 1,02
pH: 3,33
SERVING & CELLARAGE
Serve between 13/14oC. This wine was filtered and does not require decanting. It was bottled ready for drinking and will keep several months after opening.
TASTING NOTES
Amber colour.
Hints of apricot and plum, some dry leaf. From the background notes of brown sugar and a light caramel. Viscous entry with an excellent dryness towards a long spicy ending.
Excellent as a digestif.
Rich Fruit and Sponge Cakes, Chocolate, Crystallized Fruit, Foie-gras and Cheese.
