• Madeira wine

    5 maggio, Portogallo ⋅ 🌧 61 °F

    For a rock in the Atlantic Ocean it’s remarkable that they could get enough land together to grow enough grapes to make any volume of wine and yet here we were having a wine tasting. There’s a special technique in the production of Madeira wine, making it sweeter than traditional California wine, and almost a syrup like a port. Of course they start with completely different grapes so that has an effect on the flavors. We purchased a 2007 vintage in 2007 is the year. It was placed in cask. It was bottled in 2026 so yes, it definitely has an oak caramel flavor.Leggi altro