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
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
19-20%