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Malvasía Dulce, Los Bermejos - NV

Name: Malvasía Dulce, Los Bermejos
Brand: Los Bermejos
SKU: 25762
Price: 38.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 25762 500mL

A complex, sweet wine with more secondary characters than pretty floral notes. Amber, with dried and roasted nuts. A distinct touch of bay leaf adds herbal complexity. Unusual, as it was aged in French oak in a five-year Solera system, this balanced after-dinner wine should be paired with melty, complex cow's milk cheeses, or salty, fatty Iberico.

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Color

White

Vintage

Country

Spain

Region

Canary Islands

Producer

Los Bermejos

Grape Variety

Malvasia

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Staff Pick Notes

My love of sweet wine shows in this note of adoration to the Los Bermejos Malvasia Dulce. Grown on the Canary Islands in a landscape that could be described as lunar. The porous, volcanic soil and low rainfall leads to rich and concentrated fruit. This dessert wine sees five-years in a French oak, solera-aging system, which adds complex notes of toffee, dried papaya, and almonds to the orange marmalade, sweet orchard fruit, and dried flowers notes. This is a sweet wine, but it's also supremely balanced by tangy acidity and the ability to be light on its feet. A wine like this needs to be paired with an equally amazing cheese. A semi-soft Flor de Guía, a cow/sheep/goat cheese that's native to the Canary Islands, will be just fine.

- MHG

Glossary

Spain

Central to the Spanish winemaking philosophy is the belief that wine should be released only when it is ready to be consumed, and not a moment before. Spanish wine law focuses squarely on this issue: the terms Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva are highly regulated indicators of the amount of time a wine has aged prior to its release. In Rioja, Navarra, and the Ribera del Duero (which have the most stringent requirements) red Crianzas must be aged a minimum of two years; Reservas, at least three...