Bual 1961

Grape Varieties: Bual

Bottling Year: 2004

Product Description: Cossart Gordon’s Vintage Bual 1961 is a single harvest Madeira. This wine was aged for 43 years in seasoned American oak casks in the traditional ‘Canteiro’ system, whereby the casks were gradually transferred from the top floors of the lodge, where it is naturally warmer, to the middle floors and eventually to the ground floor where it is cooler. The wine was regularly racked and when it reached the desired stage of maturity it was bottled. Only 1,291 bottles of this wine were released.

Specification: Alcohol by Volume: 21% Total Acidity: 8.90 g/l (tartaric acid) pH: 3.48 Baumé (20oC): 3.4 Reducing Sugar: 94,7 g/l

Tasting Notes: Clear, golden brown colour with a golden green nuance, slow teardrop. Characteristic Madeira bouquet, good intensity, complex with notes of wood and caramel, resins, toffee and spices (vanilla and curry) dried fruits and hazelnut. Medium sweet, concentrated, smooth, bodied, good balance, complex and long warm aftertaste with resins and wood. The aftertaste is long, making it a meditation wine.