Bual
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2100
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, roasted nuts and dried fruits
✨ Technical Specifications
Pereira D'Oliveira's Bual represents the pinnacle of medium-sweet Madeira, celebrated for its dark, voluptuous character and extraordinary longevity. Sourced from the sunny, steep volcanic terraces of Madeira, the Bual grape thrives in warmer microclimates, developing rich sugars while retaining a vibrant, structural acidity. Under the stewardship of the D'Oliveira family, these wines undergo the traditional canteiro aging process, resting undisturbed in seasoned oak casks in the warm attics of Funchal. Over decades, the gentle heat concentrates the wine, developing complex layers of dried figs, dark caramel, roasted nuts, and warm baking spices, offset by a brilliant, smoky acidity. This slow, oxidative maturation creates a wine of singular depth, carrying the liquid history of the island in every bottle.
🍾 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
Bual
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19-20%