Encruzado

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity

A single-varietal Encruzado, a grape more associated with the Dão, grown by Tiago Cabaço at Quinta da Berlica in Estremoz.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Citrine yellow with a delicate but exuberant nose, and an intense, fresh palate carried by acidity and the character of the variety.

Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Very citric and floral with a herbaceous edge and some minerality, then fresh and light in the mouth with balanced acidity.

Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Festive

Bright citrine with a fine and persistent bead, and an elegant nose of green apple, citrus and toasted bread.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

A fine-nosed Encruzado of white peach, pear and yellow apple with a buttery lactic edge, unctuous and almost velvety on the palate.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

A fresh four-grape Dão white with touches of vanilla and the smell of fruit just off the tree, built for the table rather than the cellar.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

A fresh and complex barrel-aged Encruzado with citrus and mineral aromatics, balanced in acidity, volume and structure for a long life.

Dry · Refreshing

Dry · Festive

Dry · Elegant

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Straw yellow varietal Encruzado, complex on the nose with citrus and mineral notes wrapped in a light dried-fruit aroma, then lively with real texture and volume.

Dry · Refreshing

Dry · Funky · Savoury

Dry · Elegant · Contemplative

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Savoury

Around fifteen white varieties co-fermented from fifty-year-old vines: great body and structure with acidity the estate calls exactly to the point.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

The estate sums it up as floral, fresh and structured, the balance of the Dão in wine form, from granite plots and six months on fine lees.

Dry · Funky · Savoury

Dry · Elegant · Contemplative

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Encruzado with Malvasia Fina, elegant and balanced: citrus, floral and mineral notes over ripe but delicate fruit, fresh with structure to carry it.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

Clear with citrus tints, the estate's first-release white: fruity, fresh and young with floral, citrus and mineral notes and a light tropical edge.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Bright citrine, with an elegant nose of orange blossom, lime and mango, and a palate carried by firm acidity, minerality and freshness.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Racy acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

The estate's monovarietal Encruzado from altitude: orange with mineral and forest touches over ripe mango and cherry, fresh with crisp acidity.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Racy acidity · Festive · Elegant

Intensely citrine, with stone fruit and wet stone behind a delicate brioche note, elegant in the mouth with a fine bead and crisp acidity.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Golden citrine varietal Encruzado with ripe orange, exotic fruit and toast from fifteen months in French oak, full and mineral in the mouth.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

A developed Encruzado: dried leaf, gunflint and wet stone opening into exotic fruit and forest notes, fresh and elegant with real persistence.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Citrine yellow with white orchard fruit and orange blossom, and a palate the cooperative sums up as mineral, fresh and balanced.

Sweet · Contemplative · Elegant

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

The entry white from Gouveia, Encruzado with Bical, fermented and rested in tank: the producer calls it very pleasant, with the creaminess and complexity to sit at the table.

Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

Seventy percent Jaen and Alfrocheiro co-fermented with thirty percent Encruzado and Bical: spicier than its colour suggests, with discreet fruit and a green edge from the stems.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Elegant and citric, orange peel and tangerine over a light wood note, with a savoury, structured, mineral palate from centenarian vines.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

A nineteen-variety old-vine white field blend raised on lees in concrete egg: wet stone and lemon curd, restrained on the palate and remarkably persistent.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Lime-green in the glass, delicately scented with lemon, grapefruit zest and white peach over mineral notes, dry and intense with lees-given volume.

Dry · Refreshing · Elegant

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Three white Dão varieties from Santar: a fruity, delicate nose and a fresh palate whose exuberant finish sits on a lightly acid, smooth texture.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Unwooded Encruzado from two Tondela parcels: lemon and ripe peach lifted by mango, with a pure, mineral palate textured by fine lees.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

A single-parcel white field blend, half Encruzado: orange blossom, lemon and peach with a mineral edge, grapefruit and green pineapple behind.

Dry · Elegant

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing

Citrine and aromatically complex: citrus, white blossom and tropical fruit with light wood, and a fresh, mineral palate with a long elegant close.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Unoaked Encruzado from granite and sand at 660 metres, a year on lees in tank: citrus and green apple over wet stone and salt, weighty but cut clean.

Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

A revival of palhete, roughly a fifth white grapes co-fermented with the reds: pale but concentrated, vivid cherry with more depth than the colour suggests.

Dry · Elegant

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Half Encruzado and half Malvasia Fina, with a citrus-dominant nose carrying fresh fruit and light toasted nuances.

Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Malvasia Fina led and unoaked: a light straw wine with strong floral and citric aromatics and a smooth, fresh palate meant for early drinking.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Varietal Encruzado from Silgueiros with only a quarter in barrel: elderflower and pear over lemon, fennel and passion fruit, vibrant and full on the palate.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Savoury

A skin-contact white made in the old manner: white flowers, peach and apricot on a palate the estate calls perfectly balanced between ripeness and acidity.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

A classic unoaked Dão white: floral and citric on the nose, lime and lemon leading, fresh and structured enough to age four or five years.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Half-barrel, half-tank Encruzado: elegant fruit with a touch of resin, freshness first and then the structure and length that made this bottling a Dão benchmark.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Barrel-fermented Encruzado with a fifth left unoaked: the wood is visible but folded into citrus and tropical fruit, and the finish runs very long.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Straw-citrine Encruzado with Malvasia Fina, barrel fermented with bâtonnage: orange blossom, pear and lime beside a fine vanilla note.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Straw yellow with green tints, rich floral aromatics of orange flower and lemon verbena over wet granite, and a mineral, almost saline palate.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Citrine with straw tints: lime blossom and orange flower over peach, mango and papaya, with a velvety, mineral palate and a long refined close.

Dry · Contemplative

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

The estate's house white: Bical's delicate florals against the purity of Encruzado and the austerity of Cerceal Branco, linear and vibrant.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Encruzado without filters, aged in concrete: complex, firm and whole, with a silky texture, granite minerality and a long, precise finish.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

The estate calls it firm and exuberant, with a silky texture, a linear structure and a marked depth: a wine of the present and the future.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Big-format wood and concrete, lees without stirring: orange peel and tea leaf over a light toasted reduction, citrus-driven with marked acidity and mineral length.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

Citrine yellow, from granite plots between 400 and 600 metres at Quinta do Paço: intense white-fleshed fruit with citrus, balanced and refreshing with real persistence.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Lemon yellow varietal Encruzado from a single Quinta do Paço parcel: complex on the nose with orange and a light smoke, green apple and tea on a fine, austere palate.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Golden, from a multi-vintage assembly of old Teixuga vineyard whites aged years in used barrel: apricot, hazelnut and soft smoke, fresh but explosive in the middle.