Editing Boal (grape)

{{Short description|Variety of grape}}
{{Redirect|Bual|the Philippine barangay|Bual, Cotabato|the language of Cameroon|Buwal language}}
{{about|the Portuguese grape|the Spanish wine sometimes called Boal|Doña Blanca}}

{{Infobox grape variety
| name          = Boal
| color         = Blanc
| image         = Boal.jpg
| caption       = Boal in Viala & Vermorel
| species       = <!-- Binomial name of species -->
| also_called   = Bual
| origin        = <!-- Country/region of origin -->
| hazards       = <!-- Viticultural hazards     -->
| regions       = Portugal, Spain
| notable_wines = [[Madeira wine]]
}}

'''Boal''' is a name given to several [[variety (botany)|varieties]] of [[grape]] cultivated in [[Portugal (wine)|Portugal]], notably in the production of medium-rich [[fortified wine]]s from [[Madeira Island]]. On many wine labels of [[Madeira wine]], the variety's name is [[anglicized]] as '''Bual'''. Bual from Madeira is typically less sweet than that from [[Malmsey]], but more sweet than [[Sercial]] or [[Verdelho]].<ref name="OCW">{{cite encyclopedia |editor=[[Jancis Robinson]] |encyclopedia=[[Oxford Companion to Wine]] |edition=3rd |title=Boal |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-860990-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00janc/page/83 83–84] |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00janc/page/83 }}</ref> The vines are also common in [[Portugal]] and [[Spain (wine)|Spain]], where the [[fruit]] is used in the same way for fortified wines.

==Madeira Boal==
Most of the Boal grown on Madeira is more fully known as [[Boal Cachudo]] (a synonym for the Spanish variety [[Doña Blanca]], though the two may be different grapes), which has been shown by [[DNA profiling]] to be identical to the [[Malvasia Fina]] grown in the [[Douro (wine)|Douro]] valley.<ref name="OCW"/>

==Notable Boal==
[[Buckingham Palace]] holds 25,000 bottles of wine, the oldest being a bottle of bual from 1815.

==See also==
*[[List of Port wine grapes]]
*[[List of Portuguese grape varieties]]

==References==
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[[Category:Dessert wine]]
[[Category:White wine grape varieties]]
[[Category:Madeira wine]]