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.
Cuvées
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 · 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 · Elegant
A wood-marked but fine white from centenarian vines: peach, plum and elderflower with sweet vanilla, layered and elongated on the palate.
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 · Easygoing
Dry · Elegant
Dry · Refreshing
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
A developed Encruzado: dried leaf, gunflint and wet stone opening into exotic fruit and forest notes, fresh and elegant with real persistence.
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.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Elegant · Fruity
A short, exact estate note: a perfumed nose of live, fresh fruit and a long, appealing finish.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Elegant
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.
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
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.
Rosa Maria
4.1
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.
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 · 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 · 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 · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Encruzado without filters, aged in concrete: complex, firm and whole, with a silky texture, granite minerality and a long, precise finish.
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.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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.
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.