Terrantez Medium Dry Frasqueira
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2100
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
French onion soup, roasted nuts and cured meats, aged hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Terrantez is one of Madeira's most legendary and enigmatic grape varieties, once nearly extinct due to its low yields and susceptibility to disease. Local folklore warns, 'The grapes of Terrantez, do not eat them nor give them away, for wine God made them,' highlighting its esteemed status. Pereira D'Oliveira's Medium Dry Frasqueira releases represent the pinnacle of this variety's expression. Aged slowly in seasoned oak casks under the traditional canteiro system in Funchal, these vintage wines develop a mesmerizing complexity. Terrantez is celebrated for its unique sensory profile: a rich, medium-dry entry of dried citrus, spice, and burnt sugar, which dramatically transitions into a long, dry, and famously bitter-medicinal finish reminiscent of walnut skins and dark tea.
🍾 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
Terrantez
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19-20%