Founding owner · 2026 vintage
Madeira Estate
Madeira, Portugal · from $480
Own a few vines
from $480
Buy a share of a lot by the vine — 5-vine minimum. Your bottles are allocated pro-rata at release.
Sercial (Dry)
Sercial
$96/vine · 0.9 btl/vine
Verdelho (Medium-Dry)
Verdelho
$100/vine · 0.9 btl/vine
Bual (Medium-Rich)
Boal
$110/vine · 0.8 btl/vine
Malmsey (Rich Sweet)
Malvasia
$118/vine · 0.8 btl/vine
Or take the whole block
Your name on the block across multiple vintages — every call is yours. Reserve it with a fully refundable $500 deposit.
- Guest checkout — account made after you pay
- We farm it; you make every winemaking call
- Ships worldwide, or free pickup at the estate
- Secure checkout — payments powered by Stripe
The wines
4 lots enrolling at Madeira.
Sercial (Dry)
Sercial
Sercial is the driest, sharpest Madeira, with dried lemon and green almond over a smoky, salted-caramel depth and a searing, bone-dry acidity.
- Pairs with
- roasted almonds, consommé, cured ham
- Serve
- Serve lightly chilled at 12-14°C in small pours as an aperitif.
- Cellar
- Bracingly dry and nearly indestructible; lives for decades, open or closed.
0.9 btl / vine
$96/vine
Verdelho (Medium-Dry)
Verdelho
Verdelho Madeira is medium-dry, with dried apricot and orange peel over toffee and smoke balanced by a tangy, cutting acidity.
- Pairs with
- smoked salmon, mushroom soup, aged cheese
- Serve
- Serve at 12-14°C in a small glass.
- Cellar
- Off-dry and very long-lived; ages and keeps for decades.
0.9 btl / vine
$100/vine
Bual (Medium-Rich)
Boal
Bual Madeira is medium-rich and softly sweet, with raisin and fig over coffee and caramel lifted by Madeira's hallmark bright acidity.
- Pairs with
- blue cheese, fruitcake, pecan tart
- Serve
- Serve at 14-16°C in small pours after dinner.
- Cellar
- Medium-rich and effectively immortal; cellars for decades.
0.8 btl / vine
$110/vine
Malmsey (Rich Sweet)
Malvasia
Malmsey is the richest, sweetest Madeira, with dried date and molasses over coffee and toffee, lush and viscous yet kept lively by tangy acidity.
- Pairs with
- chocolate cake, Stilton, caramel desserts
- Serve
- Serve at 14-16°C in small after-dinner pours.
- Cellar
- Lusciously sweet yet fresh; ages and keeps almost indefinitely.
0.8 btl / vine
$118/vine
What you receive
A year of the vintage, in your hands.
Samples all season
Verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, and finished wine — shipped as the vintage takes shape.
A vote at every fork
Pick date, fermentation, barrels, and where the blend lands. The real calls, with your input.
Watch it live
Livestream access to harvest at dawn, the cellar, and bottling day, from anywhere.
Your bottles at release
Allocated pro-rata to your vines, with the crew's name on the back label next to yours.
The place
Why the wine tastes like here.
- Region
- Madeira, Portugal
- Soil
- Volcanic basalt with red clay on narrow poios terraces
- Climate
- Subtropical Atlantic, warm and humid on volcanic terraces
- Elevation
- 0–600 m
- Wines enrolling
- 4 crew lots
Vine to bottle
You’re there for the whole year.
Jan
Dormant pruning
Feb
Cane tying
Mar
Bud break
Apr
Shoots grow
May
Flowering
Jun
Fruit set
Jul
Canopy
Aug
Véraison
Sep
Harvest
Oct
Cap punch
Nov
Barrel down
Dec
Barrel samples
Follow the season
The Madeira growing year, by the numbers.
Weather is live and real, updated hourly. The season curve is typical for this region’s latitude and climate, replaced by your crew’s readings once farming begins.
83% humidity · wind 3 km/h
879 growing degree days · last 90 days
Last 14 days · high / low °C
7-day forecast
Sun
29°
26°
Overc
Mon
30°
25°
Overc
Tue
31°
25°
Overc
Wed
31°
25°
Overc
Thu
30°
25°
Partl
Fri
31°
25°
Fog
Sat
30°
23°
Fog
Hemisphere
Northern
Right now
Véraison
Harvest
September · ~43d
Target ripeness
~25°Brix
Véraison ~60% across the home block — color coming on fast
5h ago
Brix sampled at 20° — tracking on pace for harvest
Yesterday
Crew vote opens Friday: pick-date window
2 days ago
Light leaf-pull on the morning side for even ripening
4 days ago
Deficit irrigation dialed back to concentrate flavor
5 days ago
Sample activity. Your crew’s live feed from Madeira appears here once the vintage begins.
BarrelLogicSeason progress
Typical · Apr–Oct
Typical ripeness
Typical · véraison to harvest
Beyond the bottle
Your vintage, end to end.
One vine, three rooms — own it here, steer it in BarrelLogic, and taste the wider world at BarrelTaster. It’s all one ecosystem.
SplitVineyards
Your vines at Madeira and the wine they make — a few by the vine, or the whole block.
You're hereBarrelLogic
Track your vintage bud break to barrel — ripeness, the cellar, samples, and every winemaking vote — in the winery's operating system.
Visit BarrelLogicBarrelTaster
Not ready to own a whole vintage? Taste finished wines from across the world first.
Explore at BarrelTasterWhat you’ll actually decide.
We farm it; the calls are yours. Over the vintage your crew votes the real forks — tracked and tallied in BarrelLogic.
Pick date
Call harvest by the ripeness numbers and the forecast.
Fermentation
Whole-cluster or destemmed, native or inoculated yeast.
Barrels & oak
New vs. neutral wood, cooperage, and time in barrel.
The blend
Where the final wine lands — lot by lot, with the crew.
Buy with confidence
Owning a vintage, without the worry.
You’re among the first owners of this estate’s crews. Questions about delivery, duties, or how a season is handled where you live?
Talk to us firstRefundable block deposit
Reserve a whole block with a fully refundable deposit — no commitment until you decide.
Secure checkout
Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.
Real provenance
Your bottles are tied to your vines, with your name on the back label at release.
Ships worldwide or free pickup
We ship to you, or you collect at the estate for free — your call.
Questions
Everything you might be wondering.
No — check out as a guest. We create your account after you pay so you can follow your vines and manage shipments.
Make the Madeira vintage yours.
Buy a few vines or lease the whole block — no account needed until checkout. We farm it; you make every call and the wine is yours.
Choose your vines — from $480