Medium Dry 15 YO
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
French onion soup, smoked duck breast, aged Comte cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary house of Pereira D'Oliveira, this 15-year-old Medium Dry Madeira represents a liquid link to the golden age of maritime trade. The unique character of Madeira was born of serendipity during the Age of Discovery, when wines sent on long sea voyages were subjected to intense tropical heat, transforming them into complex, resilient elixirs. Today, D'Oliveira replicates this historic process using the traditional canteiro system, aging the wine in seasoned oak casks nestled in the warm lofts of their Funchal cellars. Over fifteen years of gentle heating and gradual evaporation, the wine develops its signature amber hue, vibrant acidity, and rich, smoky complexity. D'Oliveira's masterful blending ensures a perfect harmony between residual sweetness and tangy, mouthwatering acidity, capturing the soul of the island's volcanic terroir.
🍾 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.
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19%