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
