Cycling Ecopista do Dão One Way, full-day from Coimbra
After hotel pickup in Coimbra, we take direction to activity start in Viseu. Day dedicated to bicycle touring on an old railway branch that has 130 years of transpor...
Structure
Drinking window
Best 2 to 10 years from vintage.
vintage2 yrs10 yrs12 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: dry straw, pungent spice, grape, lime, peach, yellow melon
Palate: fine ripe tannin, contained bitterness, clementine, lemon, white flowers
A skin-contact white from old vines: dry straw and pungent spice over grape, lime and peach, with fine tannin and contained bitterness.
What it pairs with
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Moroccan tagine
Skin-contact tannin and spice notes hold up to cumin and dried fruit. -
Grilled sardines on bread
The wine's bitterness and vibrant acidity handle oily fish better than a conventional white. -
Hard goat's cheese
Tannin in a white needs a firm cheese to lean against.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta Vale do Cesto · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Vinhas Velhas
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Skin contact during fermentation, with the stems still legible in the aromatics
- Drinking window
- 2-10 from vintage
Frequently asked about Alva Magna Branco de Curtimenta
What does Alva Magna Branco de Curtimenta taste like?
The stems appear subtly on the nose, giving aromas of dry straw, pungent spice, grape, lime, peach and yellow melon over a light mineral and strongly floral base. The palate has a fine, ripe but present tannin, contained bitterness and vibrant acidity, with citrus fruit moving between clementine and lemon and white flowers behind.
What grapes are in Alva Magna Branco de Curtimenta?
The estate is explicit that the fruit comes from old vines and that the varieties cannot be defined, which is why no blend percentages are published.
What is curtimenta?
It is the Portuguese term for fermenting a white wine on its skins, the technique behind what the wider market calls orange or skin-contact wine.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão