White

Filipa Pato & William Wouters 3B Blanc de Blancs is a vivacious sparkling wine boasting scents of white fruit, hints of citrus, and mineral undertones. On the palate, it is invigorating, forthright, and refined. This wine features effervescent bubbles, pronounced acidity, and an enduring saline finish.

A great starting point for discovering Dão! This is a fresh and juicy wine, to share and toast. A wine with great fruit intensity and a fresh elegance, so typical of Dão.

Castes
Malvasia-fine, Encruzado, Cerceal-White

Tasting Notes
Lime yellow, greenish, bright. Intense aroma with lemony fruit and green apple, slight hint of wet stone. Palate with lively, linear and high acidity. Excellent balance with light body and moderate alcohol content, linear and without edges. Finishes fresh and fruity.

The origin of our wine essence! A classic and contemporary Dão, where we showcase the art of blending, through freshness and complexity.

Castes
Encruzado, Bical, Malvasia-Fina and Cerceal-Branco

Tasting Notes
Lemon yellow, clear. Complex, with citrus notes of apple and stone fruit.
(apricot). Linear and crisp acidity, excellent finish

It has a bright, citrus colour. On the nose, it offers citrus fruits, vanilla, white spices, and a hint of mineral granite. Complex, intense, subtle and well balanced, its concentration and elegance make for a very serious wine.

Winner of Vivino's 2020 Wine Style Awards: Northern Portugal White (2016 Vintage)
Vivino Rating: 4.5

Region: Bairrada

Producer: Filipa Pato
This white wine is the result of a joint project between Filipa Pato and her husband to make a wine that expresses the full potential of the exceptional terroir of Óis do Bairro. This village has been known since the 19th century for its great capacity to create exceptional white wines, "grand cru", it has the richness and cut of top level white Burgundy.

Very mineral nose with a certain smokiness due to the limestone soil. It has a distinguished fruity touch of pears (typical Bical) and slightly nutty character (hazelnut, almonds, pines). After some time in the glass it even reveals thyme and honey.

The mouth is refined, creamy, relatively smooth and has present minerality, a kind of saltiness due to typical Atlantic climate. The wine is very broad in the mouth with an almost crunchy, nutty texture. The finish is voluptuous with very precise notes of preserved and ripe fruit.

Citrus color. The aroma is a mix of citrus, tropical, flowers and some dried herbs. With a fruity and floral character, it also has a strong minerality. The taste is equally complex, balanced and full-bodied, but at the same time elegant and fresh. It's a wine that leaves all the aromatic complexity of Alvarinho and a unique “terroir” in the mouth, with a very pleasant, long and persistent finish.

Citrus color. The aroma is a mix of citrus, tropical, flowers and some dried herbs. With a fruity and floral character, it also has a strong minerality. The taste is equally complex, balanced and full-bodied, but at the same time elegant and fresh. It's a wine that leaves all the aromatic complexity of Alvarinho and a unique “terroir” in the mouth, with a very pleasant, long and persistent finish.

Dry fully ripe white wine. Gold with shiny thick citrus tears and wide edge. Dusty nose with striking freshness and a creamy texture, meaty ripe evolution with lush aromatic aftertaste. Perfect with grilled sardines and river fish, also with creamy white meat preparations; with braised root vegetables au gratin with Old Bruges cheese and with matured hard sheep cheese. Serving temperature: 10°C

A starting point to discover Dão! “Portal da Estrela” is a fresh and juicy wine, to share and toast. A wine with great fruit intensity and a
fresh elegance, so typical of Dão.

Castes
Malvasia-fine, Encruzado and Cerceal-White

Tasting Notes
Lime yellow, greenish, bright. Intense aroma with lemony fruit and green apple, slight hint of wet stone. Palate with lively, linear and high acidity. Excellent balance with light body and moderate alcohol content, linear and without edges. Finishes fresh and fruity.

We went to the highest slopes in the top of Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo to pick the grapes that mature more slowly and maintain greater freshness and linearity, and to create a new wine: the Quinta Nova Blanc de Noir, a Reserva white wine made from red grapes.

The beautiful Tinta Roriz grapes are the first to enter our winery. We harvest them at their perfect maturation point, so that we can extract all the components that make this wine unique and sublime.

Delicate citrus aromas combined with white stone fruit support the complex and vibrant, enigmatic aroma. With remarkable firmness granted by the red grapes, this is a compact, fresh and tense wine, offering an endless finish with great precision, as a great wine should be.

Classicism combined with modern winemaking, this Reserve white wine from Quinta Nova is a thrilling wine that awakens all our senses.

Vivino Rating: 4.2

92 pts Wine Enthusiast - Encruzado, also known as Salgueirinho, is an endemic variety from Dão. Coming from a land of higher altitude and sheltered like the Taboadella vineyard, in granites metamorphosed for hundreds of thousands of years, in this lot we share our care with the cross-grape variety. The delicate grange of the cross-grape vines requires increased attention during the growing season. The reward is enormous, the wine is firm and exuberant, the texture is silky, the structure is linear and the depth marked. It is a wine of the present and the future.

Grape Varieties:
Encruzado

Tasting Notes:
Encruzado, also known as Salgueirinho, is an endemic variety from Dão. Coming from a land of higher altitude and sheltered like the Taboadella vineyard, in granites metamorphosed for hundreds of thousands of years, in this lot we share our care with the cross-grape variety. The delicate grange of the cross-grape vines requires increased attention during the growing season. The reward is enormous, the wine is firm and exuberant, the texture is silky, the structure is linear and the depth marked. It is a wine of the present and the future.

Store and Serve Advices:
Serve at temperature 8-10ºC.

Food Pairing:
Perfect to pair with grilled fish, seafood, white meat, salads and cheese dishes.

Allergens:
Contains sulphites.

Reviews and Awards:
. 92 points in Wine Enthusiast Magazine;
. 89 points in Vinexpressen.dk;
. 17,5 points in Revista de Vinhos;
. 17,5 points in Vinho Grandes Escolhas.

The exuberance and transparency of the Encruzado grape variety, combined with the delicate floral aromas of Bical and the austerity of Cercial, made it possible “to design” a Villae white wine that has a unique profile and vibrant acidity - a beautiful testimony to the original terroir!

Food-Pairing
Delicious with fish, grilled fresh fish, white meat and as an aperitif

Grapes: 30% Encruzado, 40% Bical, 30% Cercial
The Amorim family has been in the cork business for decades. The love of cork has inevitably led to a similar love of wine. Twenty years ago they bought, among other things, Quinta Nova in the Douro. In 2018, after gaining the necessary experience, the group decided to invest in another classic wine region, the Dão, by acquiring Taboadella. The winery goes back to Roman times and even has a Roman lagar (simply put: a large container in which grapes are pounded). Located in Silvã de Cima, in the heart of the Dão wine region, the estate consists of a single piece of 40 hectares of vineyard, at an altitude between 400 and 530 meters above sea level. About 11 hectares are dedicated to the white grape varieties: encruzado, bical and cercial. Grape varieties that you don't often find outside the Dão, but that do very well here on the granite soils. The grapes are processed in the state-of-the-art winery that the Anorim Group had designed by architect Carlos Castanheira. The alcoholic fermentation takes place at low temperature in stainless steel tanks (80%) and cement tulip-shaped tanks (20%)

An atypical spring, initially quite cold, combined with the deliberate technical option to delay pruning, led to a delay in the overall harvest cycle, making it possible to avoid exposure to the late frosts that occurred in the first half of April, in the Dão Demarcated Wine Region. Flowering of the vines in the sunny weather propitiated generous formation of the grapes, giving rise to complete bunches. There was no rainfall in June, July and August, with high daytime temperatures and mild nights, which permitted good development of the bunches. These thermal amplitudes in the perfectly planted and adapted vineyards, combined with the high level of water in the subsoil, enabled balanced evolution of the maturation process, and resulted in an exceptional quality of the grapes. The specific conditions of Taboadella's microclimate enabled us to make wines with a profile and richness that reflect this unique terroir. The white grapes benefited from a high concentration of aromas and structure in this year of extraordinarily favourable climatic conditions

Store & Serve
Serve at 10 -12 ºC. Can be drunk until 4 years after harvest

With the desire to go further, we brought techniques from other places to No Rules Wines, deciding to make wine in clay pots. With these wines, we want to show the combination of granite and clay!

Castes
Old vine, mixture of native varieties.

Tasting Notes
Bright golden yellow. Aroma of great complexity with notes of honey, orange in syrup and baked apple. Tense and broad palate with a fantastic balance between vibrant acidity and a long, textured finish.

Mango, Green apple and Lemon

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