Sercial
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Smoked salmon, roasted salted almonds, hard sheep's milk cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Pereira D'Oliveira's Sercial Madeira represents the pinnacle of the driest style of this legendary fortified island wine. The Sercial grape, historically known on the Portuguese mainland as 'Esgana Cão' (or 'dog strangler') due to its fierce, enamel-stripping acidity in youth, undergoes a miraculous transformation on the volcanic cliffs of Madeira. D'Oliveira utilizes the traditional canteiro system, aging the wine in seasoned oak casks in warm lofts where gentle, passive heating concentrates the liquid over decades. This slow, oxidative journey tames the grape's searing acidity, weaving it into a complex tapestry of dried citrus peel, toasted walnuts, saline minerality, and exotic spices. D'Oliveira's unique library of old casks allows them to release Sercials of astonishing depth, showcasing a style that is both bracingly fresh and profoundly historic.
🍾 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%