Cossart Gordon 1958 Bual Vintage Madeira

Notes - This is a special order item and can take 5 days or more for delivery. Please telephone 01329 822733 for availabilty.

Vintage (or Frasquiera) Madeira must be aged in cask for a minimum of 20 years, in practise they are aged for much longer, before being bottled under Madeira Wine Institute supervision. The wine must then be aged in bottle for a further two years before being released for sale. Madeira is a complex, interesting wine and is made in virtually every vintage. Due to the unique estufagem aging process Madeira is one of the longest-lived wines and also improves for days after opening, but will keep, once opened, for a month and more in a decanter. It makes an ideal wedding or anniversary present. Cossart Gordon Frasqueira-Vintage Madeiras continually fetch the very highest prices at international fine wine auctions. They are renowned for their superb quality and style. The 1958 Cossart Gordon is made form 100% Bual (Boal) grapes. Tasting notes - "Red, foxy colour. Wonderfully rich and concentrated without any excessive astringence. Bonfire topnote on great concentration of sweetness and vivacity. Great hit of appetising healthy richness. It’s delicious, amazingly fresh and very, very long." Jancis Robinson, February 2003. ""Good smoky nose; sweet smoky nuts on the palate, good and lively, pungent and rich. Good balance, very complete and satisfying." Margaret Rand, Fine Wine, December 2006.
 
   

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