Tinta Negra Medium Dry
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
French onion soup, roasted salted nuts, cured meats
✨ Technical Specifications
Tinta Negra is the historical workhorse grape of Madeira, surviving the late 19th-century phylloxera epidemic to become the backbone of the island's wine production. For generations, it was relegated to anonymous blends, but historic houses like Pereira D'Oliveira have championed its potential, proving it can produce wines of immense complexity and longevity that rival the noble varieties. This Medium Dry expression is crafted using the traditional canteiro system, where the wine is aged in seasoned oak casks in the warm attics of Funchal. Over time, the gentle, natural heat concentrates the wine, developing a complex profile of dried orange peel, warm spices, and toasted nuts, all balanced by the vibrant, mouth-watering acidity characteristic of Madeira's volcanic soils.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
Tinta Negra
🍷 ABV
19%