Winery Cossart Gordon5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with appetizers and snacks and sweet desserts.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich of Winery Cossart Gordon in the region of Terras Madeirenses often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or citrus fruit.
Food and wine pairings with 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich
Pairings that work perfectly with 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich
Original food and wine pairings with 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich
The 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich of Winery Cossart Gordon matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of apple cake or sunshine pie with tomato pesto and pine nuts.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cossart Gordon's 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich.
Discover the grape variety: Humagne rouge
It is a variety of Valle d'Aosta origin and, like Arvine, it is also found in Italy. In the past, it was cultivated in Savoy and registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list B, under the name of red humagne, but it is not related to white humagne. According to recent genetic analyses, the Swiss variety Cornalin du Valais is its father and Rèze its grandmother. It is also the grandson of the petit rouge d' Aoste.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of 5 Years Old Malmsey Full Rich from Winery Cossart Gordon are 2015, 0, 2008
Informations about the Winery Cossart Gordon
The Winery Cossart Gordon is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in the of Madeira to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Madeira
The wine region of Madeira is located in the region of Terras Madeirenses of Portugal. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Blandy's or the Domaine Blandy's produce mainly wines natural sweet, sweet and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Madeira are Verdelho, Sercial and Touriga nacional, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Madeira often reveals types of flavors of oaky, minerality or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of butterscotch, salt or roasted almonds.
The wine region of Terras Madeirenses
Madeira is a Portuguese-owned archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 miles (970km) southwest of Lisbon and 450 miles due west of the North African coast. It gives its name to one of the world's great fortified wines. Both the wine and the island hold unique places in the history of wine. All fortified wine from the island is now produced under the Madeira DOC, while the table wines are sold under the VR (Vinho Regional) title Terras Madeirenses.
The word of the wine: Maturation
Transformation undergone by the grape when it is enriched with sugar and loses some of its acidity to reach maturity.
