Winery BarbeitoBoal Reserva
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with appetizers and snacks and sweet desserts.
The Boal Reserva of the Winery Barbeito is in the top 40 of wines of Madeira.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Boal Reserva of Winery Barbeito in the region of Terras Madeirenses often reveals types of flavors of cream, citrus or apples and sometimes also flavors of apricot, caramel or raisin.
Food and wine pairings with Boal Reserva
Pairings that work perfectly with Boal Reserva
Original food and wine pairings with Boal Reserva
The Boal Reserva of Winery Barbeito matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of apple cake or tuna spread.
Details and technical informations about Winery Barbeito's Boal Reserva.
Discover the grape variety: Baroque
From a morphological point of view, Baroque seems to have common origins with Tannat. Still called Blanc Bordelais, this white grape variety is distinguished essentially by the characteristics of its leaves. Those that are still young are both yellowish and downy. Their bumps have a somewhat bronzed appearance. The adult leaves have angular teeth. The leaves are not very three-lobed and have a pubescent, downy blade. The Baroque is grown in the Adour basin, mainly in Tursan and in certain vineyards in the Gers. Its production area is therefore not very large. This grape variety manages to resist oidium, unlike other varieties, and its harvest must be well done and free of rot. The harvest must be well done and free of rot, which leads to a better result and a more successful wine production. Moreover, the development of Baroque must be slowed down in time, bearing in mind that this type of grape variety only matures about twenty days after Chasselas.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Boal Reserva from Winery Barbeito are 2008
Informations about the Winery Barbeito
The Winery Barbeito is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 43 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: Aggressive
Said of a wine with excessive, biting and unpleasant acidity.
