Winery Barbeito5 Years Old Island Rich Reserva
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 Island Rich Reserva of Winery Barbeito in the region of Terras Madeirenses often reveals types of flavors of microbio.
Food and wine pairings with 5 Years Old Island Rich Reserva
Pairings that work perfectly with 5 Years Old Island Rich Reserva
Original food and wine pairings with 5 Years Old Island Rich Reserva
The 5 Years Old Island Rich Reserva of Winery Barbeito matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of chocolate mousse or steamed carrots with saffron.
Details and technical informations about Winery Barbeito's 5 Years Old Island Rich Reserva.
Discover the grape variety: Carricante
It is most certainly of Italian origin, more precisely from Sicily where it is very present, especially on the slopes of the eastern and southern slopes of Mount Etna. It is thought to be the result of a natural cross between montonico pinto and scacco. It has often been confused with the catarratto even today. Carricante is identified today by two known biotypes, A and B, ... a variety almost unknown in France, but registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
Informations about the Winery Barbeito
The Winery Barbeito is one of of the world's great 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: Rafle (taste of)
A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.
