The cellar

Top-rated Antao Vaz

Every wine

The highest-rated Antao Vaz bottlings we have reviewed, one per producer.

4.4 Alentejo Esporão Reserva Branco Herdade do Esporao 4.4 Alentejo Grande Rocim Branco Herdade do Rocim 4.4 Alentejo Marias da Malhadinha Branco Herdade da Malhadinha Nova

Region by region

Where Antao Vaz is made

1 regions, with their best Antao Vaz bottles and the estates that make them.

Wine and cheese

Cheese with Antao Vaz

Every cheese
Queijo Serpa Our pick A young Serpa is buttery and mild, at most slightly picante. A dry white led by Antão Vaz, with or without a touch of oak, has the high acidity to cut through that butter and leaves the ewe's milk flavour clean on the finish. Antão Vaz, dry white, Alentejo: Esporão Reserva Branco · Marias da Malhadinha Branco · Salino Branco
Queijo de Nisa Our pick Nisa is a firm ewe's cheese, slightly acid and intensely aromatic, made in the same Portalegre district as these whites. Their high acidity meets the cheese's own and keeps the finish clean against the fat of the raw milk. Portalegre white, Alentejo: Conventual Branco
Queijo Serpa Velho Our pick Past 180 days Serpa Velho is hard, dry and intense, with a lingering flavour. A dry white fermented or aged wholly or partly in oak has the extra texture to stand beside it, and its acidity cuts the fat of the aged ewe's milk. Barrel-fermented or part-oaked dry white, Alentejo: Grande Rocim Branco · Esporão Reserva Branco · Marias da Malhadinha Branco
Queijo de Évora Our pick Évora is firm, slightly picante and acid. A dry Alentejo white blend made without oak, light to medium in body and fresh, keeps pace with the cheese's tang, and no wood stands between the wine and the ewe's milk. Unoaked Alentejo white blend, Alentejo: Ponte Mouchão Branco · Conventual Branco · Herdade dos Grous Branco
Queijo Mestiço de Tolosa Our pick Tolosa is semi-soft with a slightly picante finish. Antão Vaz whites fermented and aged in clay talha are medium in body with high acidity, so the acidity answers the spice and no oak gets between the wine and the paste. Talha-fermented dry white, Alentejo: Amphora Branco · Farrapo Branco · Millennial Branco

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