Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Easygoing
Citrine and very delicately scented, almost enigmatic on the nose, soft and fresh in the mouth with the faintly sweet edge Bical carries.
Cuvées
Dry · Medium-bodied · Racy acidity · Savoury
Citrine yellow with an austere nose and a light touch of wood, and a palate the cooperative sums up as a white that tastes more than it smells.
Dry · Bold
Dry · Refreshing
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant
The estate praises Tinta Pinheira for aromatic delicacy allied to structure, and treats this bottling as an ancestral vinification revived.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Racy acidity · Refreshing
The estate's own warning is the tasting note: the acidity of this Uva-Cão is striking, which is exactly why the variety was planted at the vineyard's edge.
Dry · Funky · Savoury
Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing
A red grape vinified white: bright citrine with pear, peach and melon and floral rose and wet-stone touches, mineral and firm in the mouth.
Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Fruity
Citrine, with exotic fruit and pineapple beside white orchard pear, and a balanced, fresh palate whose depth comes from a light barrel stage.
Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing
The estate calls it a symphony of papaya, grapefruit and apple, fresh, elegant and lively, from ungrafted pé franco Touriga Nacional worked in barrel.
Outono de Santar
4.5
Sweet · Contemplative · Elegant
Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
A white pressed from red Touriga Nacional: white fruit with floral and mineral notes and a riper fruit echo of the grape, tense and structured on granite.
Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing
A blanc de noirs from equal Touriga Nacional and Rufete, ten months on lees: green apple and brioche with white flowers, fresh and elegant with a mineral finish.
Dry · Refreshing
Dry · Contemplative
Dry · Rustic
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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Varietal Jaen in ruby, intense and complex on the nose from blackberry and blueberry through Provençal herbs, fig, honey and cinnamon, then delicate and lively to taste.
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 · Refreshing
Dry · Light-bodied · Racy acidity · Refreshing
Varietal Cerceal Branco, the sharpest of the estate's whites: acid-fruit aromatics, light bodied and taut, in the line of classic Dão whites.
Dry · Savoury
Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant
A rare high-altitude Alfrocheiro whose tannins the estate describes as firm but very delicate and structuring rather than heavy.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Concrete-raised varietal Jaen, bright and open in colour, with the stone-dust mineral character concrete gives, a light pepper note and long, precise acidity.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Varietal Tinta Pinheira, the grape the Douro calls Rufete, bottled pale and delicate with plenty of red fruit and good acidity.
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.