Cossart Gordon Bual Vintage 1978 750 ML
SKU: AP9361979
Product Detail
Brand: | Cossart Gordon |
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Country: | Portugal |
Region: | Madeira |
Appellation: | Madeira |
Size: | 750 ml |
Wine-Type: | Fortified |
Wine-Styles: | Port |
Collections:750 ml, All Collection, Cossart Gordon, Fortified, Madeira, Port, Portugal, Wine
Tags: 750 ml, Cossart Gordon, Fortified, Madeira, Port, Portugal, Wine
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Portugal has been an important center for wine production ever since the Phoenicians and Carthaginians discovered that the many native grape varietals that grow in the country could be cultivated for making excellent wines. After all, Portugal has something of an ideal wine producing climate and terrain; lush green valleys, dry, rocky mountainsides and extremely fertile soil helped by long, hot summers and Atlantic winds. Today, such a climate and range of terroir produces an impressive variety of wines, with the best wines said to be coming out of the Douro region, the Alentejo and the Colares region near Lisbon. Portugal has an appellation system two hundred years older than France's, and much effort is made by regulating bodies to ensure that the quality of the country's produce remains high, and the wines remain representative of the regions they are grown in.
This pale amber Madeira from Portugal is lightly sweet, with nutty, slightly oxidized aromas that stay fresh and briny