sercial

This bottle, which I picked up from Greene Grape for around $45 if I remember correctly, falls into the "sercial" style, the driest, and is labeled as a special reserve, meaning that it was aged 10 years.

Wine Blogging Wednesday 2009

This bottle, which I picked up from Greene Grape for around $45 if I remember correctly, falls into the "sercial" style, the driest, and is labeled as a special reserve, meaning that it was aged 10 years.

WBW #51: Baked Goods: The Rare Wine Co. Historic Series Madeira, Charleston Sercial Special Reserve 2008

This bottle, which I picked up from Greene Grape for around $45 if I remember correctly, falls into the "sercial" style, the driest, and is labeled as a special reserve, meaning that it was aged 10 years.

LENNDEVOURS: 2008

I saw the awkwardness of the affair, and seizing a bottle of catchup for one of sercial, I filled my glass with such vehemence, that I spilt a great part of it; but even the colour and flavour did not recover me; so, with a face like a northwest moon, I swilled off the potion, and instantly fell back in my chair

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

This is certainly true of Madeiras from the drier end of the spectrum, those made from the sercial grape.

NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2010

I give the edge to the sercial, which was sweet in the mouth but dry and tangy after swallowing.

NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2010

I recently had a 1969 sercial that was graceful and mineral, with an almost balsamic tang to it, and a 1908 bual, which was sumptuously sweet and complex, with flavors of rum, brown sugar and lemon.

NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2010

Before leaving, the boats were loaded with casks of the local quaffer, which was usually a blend of several grapes: verdelho, sercial, bual, malvasia (also known as malmsey), and terrantez.

Slate Magazine Mike Steinberger 2010

Maybe after I retire to begin c’lecting sercial sercurty down on the ranch they’ll let me form my own little desertified kingdom, an I can name all da month’s of da year after my dogs an chickens..

Think Progress » ThinkFast: December 21, 2006 2006