Barbeito Verdelho 2006 Colheita Single Cask 6D 50cl 19cl

Description

Barbeito Verdelho 2006 Colheita Single Cask 6D. A limited edition single cask (casca unico) bottling, bottled in June 2020. 100% Verdelho from a single vineyard in the north coast of the Island, São Vicente.

Barbeito Madeira was founded in 1946 by Maria Barbeito de Vasconcelos. The company passed into the hands of his daughter Dona Manuela and then onto her sons in the early 1990s. One of the most significant years in Barbeito’s history was 1991 when the company entered into a joint venture with Kinoshita International Company Ltd of Japan, a company that Barbeito already had close commercial and personal relationships with since 1967.

Today Mario’s grandson, Ricardo de Freitas, runs Vinhos Barbeito. Barbeito is a very traditional canteiro style madeira and undergoes no de-acidification nor addition of caramel. Barbeito work closely with local producers and have input with them to ensure that each harvest the grapes are harvested to the specification of winemaker Ricardo de Freitas.

Barbeito Verdelho 2006 Colheita Single Cask 6D was produced exclusively with grapes from the same vineyard as the other two that Ricardo Diogo previously bottled (Verdelho 1996 and 2000). It is a small vineyard currently owned by Mr. Agostinho Andrade Junior family with whom he established a very special relationship since they met in 1994. The fact that the grapes had origin in the north coast of the island, São Vicente, contributed decisively to the great acidity of this wine that almost disguises the concentration obtained by the traditional Canteiro ageing process. 

Barbeito do not add any caramel for flavour or colouring resulting in a very pure, clean wine. 761 bottles were filled, all individually numbered.