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 · 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 · 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 · Funky · Savoury
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.
Pretexto Palhete
4.1
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 · 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
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 · 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 · Light-bodied · High acidity · Festive
A brut sparkling from two red Dão varieties, floral on the nose with fresh fruit and toasted nuances.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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.
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 · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Golden, from a multi-vintage assembly of old Teixuga vineyard whites aged years in used barrel: apricot, hazelnut and soft smoke, fresh but explosive in the middle.