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.
Cuvées
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 · 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.
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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing
The cooperative's everyday ruby red: a fresh nose of red fruit and a balanced palate with more persistence than the price suggests.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Savoury
A skin-contact white from old vines: dry straw and pungent spice over grape, lime and peach, with fine tannin and contained bitterness.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Fruity
Complex and delicate varietal Alfrocheiro: raspberry, sour cherry and cranberry with rose and woodland flowers, and a fine, layered palate.
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 · Elegant
A wood-marked but fine white from centenarian vines: peach, plum and elderflower with sweet vanilla, layered and elongated on the palate.
Avó Fernanda
4.1
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.
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 · Savoury
Dry · Easygoing
Dry · Bold
Dry · Festive
Dry · Elegant
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 · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Fruity
Violet in colour with an intense, complex bouquet: florals and wild berries balanced by a bergamot citrus lift, elegant and fresh with firm but smooth tannins.
Dry · Easygoing
Dry · Elegant
Dry · Savoury
Dry · Funky · Savoury
Dry · Festive · Elegant
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury
A lot of many varieties from plots of different ages, heights and exposures, with aromas of forest and pine needles: a true Dão blend.
Dry · Funky · Savoury
Dry · Elegant · Contemplative
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.
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 · Bold
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.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Bright red in colour, with cherry and strawberry aromas, round and balanced in the mouth and vibrant at the finish.
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 · 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.
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.
Pretexto Tinto
4.1
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Fruit-led and vegetal-fresh, with thirty percent whole bunch and large-format French oak keeping the tannins soft and the Dão freshness intact.
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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Easygoing
Intense ruby, four varieties and only half the lot in used oak: ripe red fruit and gentle spice, structured but harmonious, in the estate's modern and gastronomic register.
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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Bold
Touriga Nacional drawn from more than thirty clones and deliberately kept out of barrel: heavily coloured and floral, vigorous on the palate without being aggressive.
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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Rustic
The Castros' four-grape everyday Dão red, herbal and peppery on the nose with concentrated smoky black fruit and a silky, unforced texture.
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 · Bold
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 · 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 · Bold · Contemplative
Dry · Refreshing · Elegant
Dry · Savoury · Elegant
Dry · Contemplative
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 · 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 · Rustic
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Five varieties co-fermented in one granite lagar and given eighteen unwooded months: mulberry and redcurrant with a cedar-leaf edge.
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 · 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 · Elegant
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Ruby red, fruity on the nose and delicate in flavour, with soft, full, delicate tannins in good balance with the acidity.
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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Garnet coloured, with elegant cherry and strawberry fruit well married to a spiced note from the wood, and tannins of great delicacy.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Great aromatic presence built on red fruit and fresh wild berries, light and appealing in the mouth in a young, uncomplicated style.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Four grapes in equal quarters from the Saes vineyard: cherry, pomegranate and candied violet over flint, elegant and fresh with a mineral thread through the finish.
Dry · Light-bodied · Racy acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Varietal Cerceal in the Tobias range, unoaked and cut fine: green apple and lemon with the purity that makes the variety Dão's sharpest white.
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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Fruity
Jaen-dominated at eighty percent, bright and vivid with floral red fruits and a stony savoury undertow rather than any oak sweetness.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Whole-cluster varietal Touriga Nacional off fifteen year old vines at 550 metres: swirling raspberry, rose petal and orange peel, finishing floral and salty.
Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Festive
A brut sparkling from two red Dão varieties, floral on the nose with fresh fruit and toasted nuances.
Dry · Elegant
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 · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing
Half Encruzado and half Malvasia Fina, with a citrus-dominant nose carrying fresh fruit and light toasted nuances.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing
The Jaen-led second label of Quinta dos Roques: wild berries and pine needles, supple in the mouth, with only a tenth of the blend barrel aged.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity
Unoaked varietal Touriga Nacional from the Correio vineyard, first made in 2023: floral and berry scented with the astringency of youth.
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 · 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 · 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.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Savoury
The estate's four-variety house red: intense ruby, black plum and wild blackberry with a fresh woodland breath, chocolate and black pepper behind, elegant rather than heavy.
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.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing
Intense ruby and very aromatic, with strawberry and raspberry over a light floral note, balanced and fresh with a soft, long finish.
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 · Festive · Refreshing
A blanc de noirs pressed straight off Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz, robust and delicate at once after a year on fine lees.
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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
A two-grape cuvée made only when Touriga Nacional and Jaen taste most like Dão in a given year: floral, light-fruited, with the oak kept deliberately tenuous.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Refreshing
Varietal Alfrocheiro without wood: a clear ruby wine of strawberry and wildflower scent, refreshing acidity and a dry, generous finish.
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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Unoaked varietal Jaen with a seven-day maceration: spice, cassis, plum and blackberry, and tannins that are present but notably soft.
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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury
The estate's five-grape house red: wild blackcurrant and pine leaves over a vanilla note from the oak, generous and still astringent in youth.
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.
Soito Encruzado
4.3
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 · Light-bodied · Racy acidity · Festive · Refreshing
A blanc de noirs from red grapes with crisp, well-integrated mineral acidity, a delicate and lively mousse and a notably persistent finish.
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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Varietal Jaen from a strict selection: raspberry and light blueberry with cinnamon and clove, velvety tannins and a balsamic, pine-scented close.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Fruity
The cool altitude of the Dão pushes Jaen towards succulence, blue fruit and white spice, with allspice lifting fine, coated tannins.
Taboadella Tinto
4.4
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Four varieties with distinct jobs: Tinta Roriz for structure, Jaen for bite, Alfrocheiro for minerality and Tinta Pinheira for forest aromatics.
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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Vines of 25 to 60 years on granite at Vila Nova de Tazem, cropped at 4.5 tonnes a hectare and barely extracted: the producer's own description is a very typical Dão reflecting its sense of place.
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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Easygoing
Ruby red, the house red from Quinta do Paço plots: delicate woodland berries and violets, fruited and fresh at medium weight, made to drink young.
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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Savoury
Open ruby, varietal Jaen with only part of the lot in barrel: strong red fruit, jam and spice, fresh and tasty with soft silky tannins.