BOAL: Has alias name of Bual and, under this name, the grapes are mostly used in the production of medium rich fortified wines that come from the island of Madeira.
Bual [or Boal] (boh-ahl)
A grape variety used in Madeira. Increasingly it is used to indicate a medium sweet style of Madeira.
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Bual (or Boal) is a variety of grape used in the production of medium-rich fortified wines from Madeira Island. According to the Geisenheim DNA Database, the name is a synonym for each of at least four white wine-producing varieties.
Another alias name used for this variety is Boal/Bual in its incarnation as one of at least four varieties using the same name for use in fortified wines on the island of Madeira.
Maderization: A rich, white fortified wine resembling Sherry originally produced on the Portuguese island off the coast of west Africa of the same name. The more important varieties of Madeira are Serial, Rainwater, Boal (or Bual), and Malmsey.
The white grape types (all of which are in fact included in the blend for our Delaforce White.) are mind boggling in their variety: Malvasia, Viosinho, Arinto, Boal, Codega, Esgana Cão, (literal translation is dog strangler!), Folgosão, Gouveio, ...
 See also: Wine, Bual, Grape, Madeira, Variety
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