Sercial Frasqueira
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2100
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
salted almonds, smoked salmon, aged sheep's milk cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Sercial is the high-wire act of Madeira, renowned for its bracing, electric acidity and bone-dry profile. Locally nicknamed 'Esgana Cão' (the dog strangler) because of its sharp, astringent nature in youth, Sercial undergoes a magical transformation through the traditional canteiro aging system. At Pereira D'Oliveira, these wines are left to sleep in seasoned oak casks in warm attics, slowly concentrating through evaporation over a minimum of twenty years—and often much longer. This slow oxidative baking coaxes out complex notes of dried citrus peel, walnuts, saline minerals, and iodine. The volcanic soils of Madeira's steep terraced vineyards impart a distinct smoky, flinty undertone, resulting in a Frasqueira of unmatched tension, energy, and historical depth.
🍾 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)
19-20%