Mushroom dishes in Dão

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 · 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 · Contemplative

Dry · Savoury

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Elegant · Contemplative

Dry · Rustic

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.