Bastardo
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Consommé, toasted nuts, aged sheep's milk cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Bastardo is one of the legendary, nearly extinct grape varieties of Madeira. Once widely planted across the island prior to the devastating phylloxera epidemic of the late 19th century, it has become an ultra-rare treasure. Pereira D'Oliveira is world-renowned for preserving precious, ancient stocks of this historic varietal. The wine is crafted using the traditional canteiro system, where it undergoes decades of gentle, warm aging in seasoned oak casks in the lofts of Funchal. This slow, oxidative process coaxes out an incredibly complex profile. Typically styled as medium-dry (meio seco), Bastardo Madeira is celebrated for its striking tension between high natural acidity, rich dried fruit notes, and a distinctive, slightly rustic, smoky, and herbaceous complexity that sets it apart from other noble Madeira grapes.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1850 by João Pereira d'Oliveira, Pereira D'Oliveira is an esteemed, independent family-owned Madeira house based in the historic center of Funchal on Madeira Island, Portugal. Renowned for its vast reserves of historic library stocks acquired through family heritage and the assimilation of notable historic lodges, the house practices traditional canteiro aging in seasoned oak casks, allowing natural warmth to slowly concentrate and mature the wines over decades or even centuries. Under generations of family stewardship, the house crafts exceptionally long-lived, complex fortified wines renowned for their vivid acidity and depth, spanning dry to luscious styles made from noble varieties including Sercial, Verdelho, Bual, Malvasia, and legendary rare bottlings of Terrantez.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Bastardo
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19-20%