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Sercial
Sercial is a Portuguese white grape variety, commonly associated with the eponymous style of the Madeira fortified wine.
Sercial gives the driest style of Madeira, containing up to up to 1.5% residual sugar; Verdehlo (a medium-dry style) has up to 2.5 % residual sugar and Bual 3.5% and Malmsey/Malvasia has more than 4% residual sugar.
Sercial is the last of the white grapes to ripen in Madeira, often as late as the mid of October, and is characterised by a high level of acidity. A minimum of twenty years ageing in cask is required for vintage Sercial Madeiras, to ensure that its razor-sharp acidity has softened. Once mature, it makes a perfect apéritif but it can also hold its own very well.
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This single-vintage (aka Frasqueira) wine has been fortified with the addition of 96% alcohol and matured for 20 years in old French oak casks. It has a level of alcohol of 19.2 degrees and 56 g/l of residual sugar. Uncaramelised, this is an archetype of Sercial with a nose of rancio and dried fruit and an incredibly evocative palate, which wears its unusually high (for a Sercial style) sweetness with real style. Meat, malt, mocha, molasses; the alliterative descriptors come thick and fast…..
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer, January 2011)
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