Boal Riserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dried fruits and nuts, fruit tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
D'Oliveira's Boal Riserva represents a classic expression of Madeira's medium-sweet style, crafted from the noble Boal grape grown on the island's steep, volcanic terraces. Utilizing the traditional canteiro system, the wine is aged in seasoned oak casks in warm lofts, where gentle, natural heating coaxes out complex secondary characters of dried fruits, warm spices, and toasted nuts. This slow oxidation process, combined with the grape's natural high acidity, creates a wine of remarkable balance and longevity. The history of Madeira is deeply intertwined with the age of exploration, where these fortified wines were discovered to improve on long, hot sea voyages; today, D'Oliveira preserves this legacy with time-honored artisanal methods.
🍾 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
Boal
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19%