Terrantez Reserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, blue cheese, toasted nuts
✨ Technical Specifications
Terrantez is one of Madeira's most legendary, enigmatic, and nearly extinct noble grape varieties. Known for the famous local adage, 'As uvas de Terrantez, não as comas nem as dês, para vinho Deus as fez' (The grapes of Terrantez, neither eat them nor give them away, for God made them for wine), this low-yielding, thin-skinned variety produces wines of haunting complexity. Pereira D'Oliveira, legendary guardians of old Madeira stocks, crafts this Reserva using the traditional canteiro system, where the wine is gently heated by the natural warmth of the sun in seasoned oak casks stored in the lofts of Funchal. The resulting Terrantez Reserva is a masterclass in balance, showcasing the variety's signature duality: a luscious, medium-dry palate offset by a striking, vibrant acidity and a characteristic, slightly bitter, smoky-spicy finish.
🍾 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