Verdelho Frasqueira
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2100
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
cured meats, roasted nuts, consomme, semi-hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Pereira D'Oliveira's Verdelho Frasqueira represents the pinnacle of vintage Madeira, sourced from the steep, volcanic terraces of the island. Verdelho grapes are harvested to produce a medium-dry (meio seco) style of wine. Under the traditional canteiro system, the wine is aged in seasoned oak casks in warm lofts, subjected to gentle, natural heating over decades. This slow, oxidative process, combined with Verdelho's naturally high acidity, creates a wine of extraordinary complexity. D'Oliveira is legendary for holding their Frasqueiras in cask far longer than the required 20 years, only bottling them upon demand. The resulting wine displays a striking amber hue with complex aromas of dried orange peel, smoky wood, toasted nuts, and a signature tangy acidity that balances its delicate 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)
19-20%