Bastardo Reserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged hard cheeses, roasted duck, dark chocolate tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
Bastardo is one of the legendary, nearly extinct grape varieties of Madeira. Once widely planted across the island before the devastating phylloxera epidemic of the late 19th century, it has since become a true rarity, prized by collectors and historians alike. Pereira D'Oliveira, renowned for their unmatched library of ancient casks, is one of the few historic houses to maintain and release wines from this elusive grape. The Bastardo Reserva is crafted in a medium-dry style, utilizing the traditional canteiro system where the wine ages slowly in seasoned oak casks under the natural warmth of the lodge attics. This gentle, decades-long oxidative process coaxes out a singular profile characterized by high acidity, rustic complexity, and a distinctive spicy, dark-toned dried fruit character, offering a rare liquid connection to Madeira's rich viticultural past.
🍾 About the Producer
Pereira D'Oliveira (widely known simply as D'Oliveira) is one of Madeira's most historic and revered independent shippers, established in 1850 by João Pereira D'Oliveira. Anchored in central Funchal within cellars dating back to 1619, the house is directed by the fifth and sixth generations of the D'Oliveira family, with managing director Luís D'Oliveira and head winemaker Filipe D'Oliveira preserving ancestral practices. While historically cultivating vineyards in São Martinho, the house now sources grapes from over one hundred long-contracted growers farming rugged, steep volcanic terraces across the subtropical Atlantic island. D'Oliveira's vinous signature is defined by exceptional power, bracing natural acidity, and unmatched oxidative concentration achieved through classical canteiro aging in ancient oak vats. The lodge holds one of the planet's most formidable libraries of vintage Madeira, bottling centuries-old Frasqueiras on demand, led by monumental vintage bottlings of Sercial, Verdelho, Boal, Malvazia Cândida, and extraordinarily rare aged expressions of Terrantez, Moscatel, and single-harvest Tinta Negra.
🍇 Grapes
Bastardo
🍷 ABV
19%