Verdehlo Reserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Smoked salmon, French onion soup, semi-hard cheeses like Comte
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the dramatic, volcanic cliffs of Madeira, Pereira D'Oliveira's Verdelho Reserva represents a masterclass in the island's historic medium-dry style. The Verdelho grape, historically favored by British merchants and famously mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, thrives on the steep, terraced vineyards carved into the island's basalt slopes. This Reserva is crafted using the traditional canteiro method, where the wine is aged in seasoned oak casks placed in warm lofts, allowing natural heat to gently oxidize and concentrate the liquid over years. This process mimics the legendary ocean voyages of the 17th and 18th centuries, during which barrels of Madeira were transformed by the tropical heat of ship holds. D'Oliveira's signature style shines through in this bottling, offering a brilliant balance of high, tangy acidity and a complex, smoky, dried-fruit sweetness.
🍾 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
Verdelho
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
19%