Quinta dos Carvalhais 'Duque de Viseu' Dao
Country: Portugal Region: Dao
Varietal: Touriga Nacional / Tinto Roriz / Alfrocheiro
Vintage: 2021 Colour: Red Style: Dry
Producer: Quinta dos Carvalhais
Description:
Quinta dos Carvalhais is credited with spearheading the quality renaissance of Dão wines in the early ‘90s and continues to make some of the region's finest wines today. After being purchased by Sogrape in 1988, significant improvements were made to the winery and vineyards, including the replanting of near-extinct Dão varieties such as Encruzado, a grape now heralded as one of Portugal’s finest. Current Quinta dos Carvalhais winemaker Beatriz Cabral de Almeida continues to champion these varieties, making an impressive range of estate wines that show lovely depth, vibrant fruit, and exceptional elegance.
The estate’s 50 hectares of vineyards are mainly planted predominantly with white indigenous varieties; each matched to a specific vineyard plot. Circled by mountains and located 465 to 500 metres above sea level, a combination of granite soils and warm days followed by cool nights lends great ripeness and elegance to the wines. Quinta dos Carvalhais follows viticulture practices in harmony with nature, grazing sheep in the vineyards both to boost soil health and reduce the use of herbicides to a minimum. The modern gravity-flow winery is filled with numerous small stainless-steel fermentation tanks, allowing plots to be vinified separately. Typical of the Dão, all Quinta dos Carvalhais’s wines undergo oak ageing, with Beatriz expertly employing a mixture of new and used barrels of varying sizes to subtly integrate the influence of oak.
Tasting Note:
Inky red wine with pronounced summer fruit aromas, raspberries and cherries. Dry with marked tannin structure, fresh acidity with good fruit attack to mid palate. Lots of summer pudding fruits with a hint of mint and cassis. Well made, well balanced wine with good length and finish.
Food Matches: Duck
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Description
Country: Portugal Region: Dao
Varietal: Touriga Nacional / Tinto Roriz / Alfrocheiro
Vintage: 2021 Colour: Red Style: Dry
Producer: Quinta dos Carvalhais
Description:
Quinta dos Carvalhais is credited with spearheading the quality renaissance of Dão wines in the early ‘90s and continues to make some of the region's finest wines today. After being purchased by Sogrape in 1988, significant improvements were made to the winery and vineyards, including the replanting of near-extinct Dão varieties such as Encruzado, a grape now heralded as one of Portugal’s finest. Current Quinta dos Carvalhais winemaker Beatriz Cabral de Almeida continues to champion these varieties, making an impressive range of estate wines that show lovely depth, vibrant fruit, and exceptional elegance.
The estate’s 50 hectares of vineyards are mainly planted predominantly with white indigenous varieties; each matched to a specific vineyard plot. Circled by mountains and located 465 to 500 metres above sea level, a combination of granite soils and warm days followed by cool nights lends great ripeness and elegance to the wines. Quinta dos Carvalhais follows viticulture practices in harmony with nature, grazing sheep in the vineyards both to boost soil health and reduce the use of herbicides to a minimum. The modern gravity-flow winery is filled with numerous small stainless-steel fermentation tanks, allowing plots to be vinified separately. Typical of the Dão, all Quinta dos Carvalhais’s wines undergo oak ageing, with Beatriz expertly employing a mixture of new and used barrels of varying sizes to subtly integrate the influence of oak.
Tasting Note:
Inky red wine with pronounced summer fruit aromas, raspberries and cherries. Dry with marked tannin structure, fresh acidity with good fruit attack to mid palate. Lots of summer pudding fruits with a hint of mint and cassis. Well made, well balanced wine with good length and finish.
Food Matches: Duck
