Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Bold
The cooperative's Reserva: ruby coloured, fruity and attractive on the nose, intense in the mouth with the assertive tannins of its varieties.
Cuvées
Dry · Full-bodied · High tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Rustic
Deep ruby varietal Tinta Roriz with a fruity, attractive nose and a strong palate whose muscular tannins are the point of the wine.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
A heady varietal Touriga: tulip, bergamot and tangerine over eucalyptus and cigar box, with an opulent, ripe-tannined palate.
Avô António
4.4
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 · 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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Savoury
Thirty local varieties, none of them Touriga Nacional, fermented spontaneously and given two unoaked years in tank.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Bold
Touriga Nacional dominant and drawn from a fifty-year-old granite plot and a younger clay one: elegance, freshness and aromatic richness.
Dry · Contemplative · Bold
Dry · Elegant · Savoury
Dry · Elegant · Contemplative
Dry · Bold · Elegant
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Deep red with forest fruit lifted by chocolate and coffee, highly structured and complex, the cooperative's flagship red.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Bold
Purple-ruby with youthful flecks, complex on the nose with forest fruit, pine needles, resin and spice, long and structured in the mouth.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Fruity
Ruby coloured, with red and blue fruit over woodland notes, voluminous in the mouth with a velvety structure and a long, fresh finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
A released-with-age varietal Touriga Nacional: violet, blackberry and cherry giving way to mushroom, forest floor, vanilla, cocoa and balsamics.
Manel Chaves
4.5
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Exuberant on the nose with black fruit, eucalyptus, cocoa and tobacco, then silky and fine on the palate after fifteen months in French oak.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Bold
Intense garnet with black forest fruit allied to cocoa and mocha, long and complex without losing balance or elegance.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Intense garnet, with an aromatic balance between violet and rosemary alongside mocha and chocolate, long and powerful in the mouth.
Outono de Santar
4.5
Sweet · Contemplative · Elegant
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
An old-vine field selection in intense ruby: red and ripe fruit with floral and wild scrub notes, spiced and balsamic, full but with natural acidity and mineral drive.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Bold
From centenarian vines: sour cherry and floral Touriga notes with chocolate, vanilla and toast, and a polished, mentholated palate.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Almost opaque ruby, four years between tank and barrel before bottle: ripe black fruit and spice over integrated wood, powerful but polished with a mineral close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Complex and deep, with ripe plum, black cherry and wild raspberry running into black truffle and dark roses, then soft tannins and vibrant acidity over a mineral finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Varietal Alfrocheiro off a 55 year old parcel at 500 metres: deeply coloured, plum and red fruit on the nose, elegant and structured with velvety tannins.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Single-parcel Touriga Nacional off half a hectare planted in 1950: exuberant wild red fruit with balsamic and vanilla nuance, concentrated but held by elegant acidity.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A half Baga, half Touriga Nacional pairing across two vineyards: vigorous and stony, with fine tannins and a long stony close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Deep red with purple reflections: a delicate nose of black plum, bergamot and violet married to fine vanilla, cocoa and spice, full and round in the mouth.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Fruity
Deep ruby, with ripe redcurrant, wild blackberry and preserve notes complicated by vanilla, praline and toast, round and broad in the mouth.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Elegant
Concentrated garnet with purple flashes: high-toned violet and bergamot with plum and a soft balsamic trace, velvety and grand in the mouth.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant
The estate's Reserva from Santar old vines: fruity and fine on the nose, balanced between body and acidity, with a harmonious and elegant finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Elegant
Old-vine Touriga Nacional foot-trodden in granite and kept out of barrel: ripe blackberry and plum with violet, bergamot and warm spice.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
The estate's flagship: very expressive flowers and fruit, good structure and fresh soft tannins, with a warm, aromatic and persistent finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Bold
Ripe fruit on the nose, then structure and freshness in the mouth, closing warm and persistent.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Fruity
A short, exact estate note: a perfumed nose of live, fresh fruit and a long, appealing finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Very ripe fruit reading as fine preserve, balanced against neatly drawn barrel notes, with a satin texture and dense, noble tannins.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
Ruby with violet tints, red fruit with toast and smoke in a field where floral aromas dominate, lively and firmly built for the table.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
An intensely ripe-fruited varietal Alfrocheiro with forest-berry notes, structured and balanced, closing long and fresh at 14.5 percent.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Romantic
Purple-red varietal Touriga Nacional, elegant and floral with violets, bergamot and cocoa, and a silky, enveloping tannin.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Funky · Savoury
Skin-fermented Barcelo, unfined and unfiltered: ripe white plum with a fresh green edge, full and structured with a persistent mineral close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Intense in very ripe red fruit with toasted and dried-fruit notes, the Grande Reserva red of a Nelas estate.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Ruby Alfrocheiro with black cherry and marmalade running into rosemary, balsamic and pipe tobacco, sensual on the palate and unusually elegant for the variety.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Deep garnet with purple lights and an unusually wide aromatic sweep, from berry fruit through menthol and camphor to earl grey and cocoa, intense but very fresh.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant
Deep ruby with purple lights, black plum and fig through cassis, violet and bergamot into Mediterranean scrub, chocolate, coffee and tobacco, silky rather than grippy.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low acidity · Contemplative
Citrine with a golden cast, a late-harvest Bical and Malvasia Fina: perfumed ripe fruit, soft and full with low acidity and a light touch of French oak.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Lagar-fermented varietal Touriga Nacional with only three months in French oak: vinous and elegant, very ripe red fruit, soft and full with no astringency.
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 · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Bold
Two years in barrel by variety before blending, dark and spicy, with cocoa and vanilla behind blackcurrant and pine.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
A single-vineyard field blend from the Peach Tree parcel where every variety is interplanted: deep, blackcurrant-and-pine scented, with oak-given vanilla and chocolate.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant
Varietal Touriga Nacional in large-format French oak: violets and pine needles over red fruit, with chocolate from the wood and firm tannin under it.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Brick-edged red with very ripe red fruit, cassis and blackberry lifted by black pepper, and cocoa and vanilla from nine months in French oak.
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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
A deep, elegant nose and a mouth the estate describes as round and harmonious, with the structure and balance of a small-lot Alfrocheiro Reserva.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Bold
Garnet with violet reflections: blackberry and blueberry with menthol and fine spice, velvety and intense in the mouth with a mineral close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Elegant
Garnet with violet reflections: blackberry and blueberry with menthol and bergamot, velvety and grand in the mouth, with a long mineral close.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Violets in the nose with the black spice and quartz-like wet granite of altitude, carried by the variety's natural acidity.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Garnet, from selected Quinta do Paço fruit given a year in French oak: red fruits with a toasted edge and some black fruit, balanced with round tannin.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
Garnet varietal Touriga Nacional, complex with violets, pine needle and spice, soft and full with tannins already resolved by 18 months in bottle.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
Fragrant and true to the variety, with black cherry, violets and forest aromas of good intensity, then a full body, present but polished tannin and a dry, savoury close.
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.