Terrantez
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2100
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged blue cheese, dark chocolate, roasted walnuts
✨ Technical Specifications
The Pereira D'Oliveira Terrantez 1880 is a legendary monument in the history of wine. Terrantez is a notoriously low-yielding, thin-skinned grape that is nearly extinct on the island of Madeira, making any surviving vintage highly prized. This extraordinary Frasqueira was aged for over a century in seasoned oak casks in the family's Funchal cellars under the traditional canteiro system, where gentle warmth naturally concentrated its sugars, acidity, and complex aromatics. The wine is celebrated for its hauntingly complex bouquet of dried orange peel, dark spices, beeswax, and mahogany, balanced by a searing, vibrant acidity and the classic, slightly bitter-sweet finish characteristic of the Terrantez grape. It represents a liquid time capsule from a bygone era of Portuguese winemaking.
🍾 About the Producer
Pereira D'Oliveira (widely known simply as D'Oliveira) is one of Madeira's most historic and revered independent shippers, established in 1850 by João Pereira D'Oliveira. Anchored in central Funchal within cellars dating back to 1619, the house is directed by the fifth and sixth generations of the D'Oliveira family, with managing director Luís D'Oliveira and head winemaker Filipe D'Oliveira preserving ancestral practices. While historically cultivating vineyards in São Martinho, the house now sources grapes from over one hundred long-contracted growers farming rugged, steep volcanic terraces across the subtropical Atlantic island. D'Oliveira's vinous signature is defined by exceptional power, bracing natural acidity, and unmatched oxidative concentration achieved through classical canteiro aging in ancient oak vats. The lodge holds one of the planet's most formidable libraries of vintage Madeira, bottling centuries-old Frasqueiras on demand, led by monumental vintage bottlings of Sercial, Verdelho, Boal, Malvazia Cândida, and extraordinarily rare aged expressions of Terrantez, Moscatel, and single-harvest Tinta Negra.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Terrantez
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
20%