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.
Cuvées
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 · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A fine-nosed Encruzado of white peach, pear and yellow apple with a buttery lactic edge, unctuous and almost velvety on the 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.
Avó Fernanda
4.1
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.
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 · 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 · Racy acidity · Refreshing
The estate's own warning is the tasting note: the acidity of this Uva-Cão is striking, which is exactly why the variety was planted at the vineyard's edge.
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.
Pretexto Branco
4.0
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 · 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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A nineteen-variety old-vine white field blend raised on lees in concrete egg: wet stone and lemon curd, restrained on the palate and remarkably persistent.
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 · Refreshing · Elegant
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 · 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 · Elegant
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 · 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 · 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
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 · 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 · 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 · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Half-barrel, half-tank Encruzado: elegant fruit with a touch of resin, freshness first and then the structure and length that made this bottling a Dão benchmark.
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.
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 · Contemplative
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 · 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 · 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 · 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.