Dry 10 YO
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
salted almonds, French onion soup, aged sheep's milk cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Pereira D'Oliveira's 10-Year-Old Dry Madeira is a masterclass in tension, acidity, and oxidative complexity, crafted primarily from the high-acid Sercial grape grown on the steep, volcanic terraces of Madeira. This wine undergoes the traditional canteiro aging process, where it rests in seasoned oak casks in the warm lofts of Funchal, gently concentrating over a decade. This slow, natural heating coaxes out savory, nutty, and citrus-peel complexities while preserving the searing, electric acidity that defines the dry Madeira style. Historically, these dry styles were favored as aperitifs in the grand dining rooms of Europe and the American colonies, celebrated for their ability to stimulate the palate and survive indefinitely in 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
Sercial
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19%