Summer drinking in Dão

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.

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 · 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 · Refreshing

Pale pink, with subtle notes of fresh red fruit, wild strawberry and raspberry wrapped in a light floral touch, and a soft finish.

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 · 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 · Refreshing

Dry · Elegant

Dry · Refreshing

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 · Elegant

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 · 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 · 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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity

Pale pink with salmon flecks, delicately scented with red and exotic fruit and a light floral note, fresh and gastronomic in the mouth.

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 · 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 · 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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

Single-variety Jaen rosé in onion-skin pink, with the discreet reductive fruit typical of the grape and enough balance to be a table wine rather than a poolside one.

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 · 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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity

Salmon pink, with a complex nose of plum and forest berries and a light, fresh mouth whose volume the estate calls well drawn.

Dry · Refreshing · Elegant

Dry · Refreshing

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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity

Pale red in colour, floral with strawberry and raspberry, dry on the palate with a well present natural acidity and a redcurrant close.

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 · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

A lágrima-pressed Dão rosé with Baga and Cabernet added late for depth: fragrant and mineral, smooth and fresh with a surprisingly long close.

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 · 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 · 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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity

Light pink and dry, an Alfrocheiro and Jaen rosé whose intense strawberry and cassis bouquet sits on a fresh, structured palate.

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 · Fruity · Refreshing

Varietal Alfrocheiro without wood: a clear ruby wine of strawberry and wildflower scent, refreshing acidity and a dry, generous finish.

Dry · Refreshing

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 · 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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity

A dry, mineral and refreshing Touriga Nacional rosé with elegant red-fruit notes, named for the family's mother.

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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity

Raspberry-coloured with salmon tints, a very fine nose of wild blackberry and violet completed by citrus, and a fresh, notably persistent palate.

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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

A concrete-vinified rosé from Tinta Roriz planted between 400 and 500 metres, made for aromatic clarity and physical persistence.

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

Barrel-fermented free-run Tinta Roriz: delicate fresh red fruit with a vegetal touch, then a creamy, persistent texture behind marked 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 · 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.