Moscatel Reserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dark chocolate tarts, fruit cake
✨ Technical Specifications
While Madeira is famous for its classic noble grapes, the rare Moscatel (historically Moscatel Gra--do or Muscat of Alexandria) represents a captivating, highly aromatic chapter in the island's history. Pereira D'Oliveira, legendary guardians of Madeira's liquid history, are among the very few houses that still preserve and release this scarce style. The Moscatel Reserva is crafted using the traditional canteiro method, where the fortified wine is aged in seasoned oak casks in warm attics, allowing natural heat and gentle evaporation to concentrate its sugars and acids over time. This slow, oxidative journey imbues the wine with a deep amber hue and an incredibly complex bouquet of dried orange peel, dark honey, toasted nuts, and exotic spices, all balanced by the vibrant, electric acidity characteristic of the island's volcanic soils.
🍾 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
Moscatel
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19%