Colheita Verdelho
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Chilled consommé, roasted duck, semi-hard cheeses like Comté or Gruyère
✨ Technical Specifications
Pereira D'Oliveira's Colheita Verdelho represents a masterclass in the medium-dry style of traditional Madeira. Sourced from the steep, volcanic terraces of the island—where the Verdelho grape thrives in cooler, high-altitude sites and northern coastal vineyards—this wine undergoes the historic canteiro aging process. Gently warmed by the natural heat of the sun while resting in seasoned oak casks, the wine develops its signature complexity over many years before bottling. Historically, Verdelho was one of the most widely planted noble grapes on the island before the phylloxera crisis, prized for its searing acidity and ability to balance residual sugar with smoky, saline, and dried-citrus notes. D'Oliveira's patient approach yields a Colheita of remarkable tension, weaving together stories of maritime trade, volcanic soils, and centuries of family winemaking wisdom.
🍾 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
Verdelho
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19% - 20%