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 · 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.
Alva Magna Rosé
4.2
Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
A herbal, mineral rosé: wild blackberry and green strawberry with cut grass, basil and broken granite, dense and voluptuous in the mouth.
Dry · Savoury
Dry · Savoury
Dry · Funky · Savoury
Dry · Savoury
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 · 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 · Savoury
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 · 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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Field blend of roughly forty varieties off 75 year old vines, gently extracted: sour cherry and cranberry with flint, truffle and violets, finessed rather than powerful.
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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Contemplative
Drawn from all seven parcels of the estate and 48 varieties of 75 year old vines, three years in used cask leave it elegant and lush rather than hard.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
The estate red in classical mode, tasted by Jamie Goode as complex and refined with lovely energy and a savoury, spicy twist, and real harmony overall.
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 · Savoury · Elegant
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 · 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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Bold
The high-altitude old-vine field blend: juicy and bright with bold cherry fruit and a savoury, spicy edge that shows real detail with bottle age.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
The extended-ageing Reserva off the oldest Saes plantings: sour cherry, rose petal and black pepper leaping out of the glass, juicy on the palate with a mineral beam.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Varietal Tinta Roriz with a grenadine cast: blackberry and mulberry fruit with a vanilla edge, and tannin, body and acidity held in even balance.
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 · Savoury
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 · 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.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.