Barbeito - 10 year old Boal Madeira 750ml

Barbeito - 10 year old Boal Madeira 750ml

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Description

TASTING NOTES AND HARMONIES

Bright gold colour.  Scents of oily nuts, caramel, figs, woody and iodine touch. Smooth honeyed palate, caramelized nutty flavours. Excellent acidity in the spicy fresh finish.  Excellent as digestif, Christmas pudding, Foie-gras, chocolate, crystallized fruits and cheese.

GRAPE VARIETY:  Boal

VINEYARDS AND VINIFICATION

Grapes from various quality vineyards from Campanário, Estreito da Calheta and Prazeres. Grapes were pressed in a continuous press. Arresting of fermentation takes place at the desired degree of sweetness by adding vinic alcohol (96%).

LOT

Boal aged in French oak casks for over 10 years by the Canteiro method. For this blend we selected wines from our warehouses with stable temperatures year round, originating well balanced wines in sugar and acidity.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Alcohol: 19.20 Vol.
Baume: 3
Total sugar: 90 g/l
Volatile Acidity: 0.87
Total Acidity: 6.59
pH: 3.47

SERVING & CELLARAGE

This wine was naturally aged in casks and bottled in its purest state. To show it at its best serve between 13oC/14oC. Should be kept in a cool dry place. This wine was filtered and does not require decanting. It was bottled ready for drinking and will keep well several months after opening.

 

--------THE PRODUCER--------

Barbeito

As Madeira houses go, we go about our business a little differently from the other surviving companies. We age their wines 100% naturally in old French oak in warm warehouses (known as the more expensive Canteiro process), rather than by heat-treating them in tanks. We do not add caramel to colour and further sweeten the wines nor do not de-acidify, which helps retain freshness.


In the early years our company concentrated its efforts in the production of bottled wine. New concepts of marketing in the Madeira wine business were introduced as well as innovative packaging like the wickered flagon. The quality of our wines gained an excellent reputation among consumers which helped to strenghten Barbeito’s image in the international market.

As time went by our company increased its activities and ended up involved in the bulk wine business in the beginning of the 70’s. This involvement brought many changes in Barbeito’s daily operations due to an excessive growth in production.

The competition among exporters in the bulk wine business was very high and small companies like ours had to strive to keep that area of business active and profitable.

However, during the 80’s we started realizing that Barbeito’s involvement in that kind of exports were damaging the quality of the bottled wine that was produced.

The difficult decision to stop exporting wine in bulk only came in 1991 with the entrance of Ricardo Vasconcelos Freitas to the company. In fact, 1991 was the year of the beginning of many changes in Vinhos Barbeito, being one of the most important the joint venture with the Kinoshita family, with whom we had already a close commercial and personal relationship since 1967. This decision enabled us to concentrate our efforts in just ageing, producing and blending the best quality wines. It was like going back to the past, when our grandfather just wanted to produce and sell good bottled wine, even if only in small quantities.


In 1991 another important change occurred in our company: for first time someone from our family became responsible for the making of the wine. In 1993, after two years learning the “secrets” of our wines’ style and character as well as studying modern techniques of wine making, Ricardo Freitas faced alone his first grape harvest.  Thinking of the future, we began building a working team in which all members work under the same motto: produce good quality wines with a unique style.

Since then Vinhos Barbeito never stopped investing in the purchase of good quality grapes to make fine wines. To achieve that goal, year after year, we work to establish closer relationships with farmers.

 

--------THE REGION--------

Madeira

The fantastic jungle of an island just off the coast of Portugal. It produces some still wines too but it is famous for the wine named after the island itself. It is a fortified wine made in a unique process.  It can be nutty and dry to biscuity and sweet. A range of noble white grapes, including Malvasia, are used to produce these diverse and delectable fortified wines.