Douro

A super soft, fruity, but structured wine made from a blend of indigenous Portuguese grapes.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: 42% Touriga Nacional, 31% Touriga Franca, 22% Tinta Barroca, 5% Sousão

ABV: 13.5%]

Fresh citrus fruit and apple aromas, with liquorish and tropical notes...

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: 56% Rabigato, 32% Gouveio, 12% Viosinho

ABV: 18%

Wonderful as a long summer drink with a slice of fresh orange and tonic...

Serve at 6 to 8 degrees centigrade

Bursting with citrus, passion fruit and pineapple flavours with great texture and a lingering salty finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: 52% Rabigato, 48% Gouveio

ABV: 12.5%

Food Match: Fresh prawns, BBQ sardines, pan fried chicken breasts

Drink now, but will gain further complexity over the next 3 to 5 years.

Vegan/Vegetarian friendly

Floral nose, tropical fruit palate and mineral finish. Refreshing white.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: Arinto, Gouveio, Rabigato

ABV: 13%

Fresh, but textured and full Douro blend. Aromas of coffee and vanilla with concentrated blueberry and black current. Ripe chewy tannin with a hint of star anise on the finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa and Tinta Roriz 

ABV: 13.5%

Food Match: Hearty bean stew

The local grapes - Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa and Tinta Roriz - grow in fine soils with some schist in vineyards near Cambres, in the western part of the Douro valley and south of the river. The climate here is warm and dry, and some of the vines are over 50 years old. After harvesting fermentation takes place in stainless steel, with a small portion (around 10%) ageing for 4 months in 2nd year French oak barrels, before the final blending and bottling.

Concentrated, complex and rich, oak matured Douro red, made from a blend of selected parcels from the best vineyards on the estate.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: 74% Touriga Nacional, 13% Sousão, 12% Touriga Franca, 1% Fernão Pires

ABV: 13.5%

Brick red appearance, with a very rich aroma of very ripe fruit (grapes and overripe figs) as well as dried fruits (nuts and almonds),caramel and coffee. On the palate fresh and elegant with good acidity. The long finish is dominated by dried fruits.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Tinta Roriz,Touriga Franca,Touriga Nacional,Tinto Cão,Tinta Francisca,Tinta Amarela,Sousão

ABV: 20%

A wonderfully complex and textured barrel fermented white Douro with a long, fresh and minerally finish. Made from four different indigenous grape varieties from very high altitude vineyards.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: 46% Rabigato, 29% Viosinho, 24% Gouveio,1% Fernão Pires

ABV: 12.5%

Food Matches: Great with seafood or fleshy pan fried white fish dishes.

Jamie Goode in Wine Anorak: 12.5% alcohol. A blend of local white varieties from Pedra Alta’s highest plots. Complex and nicely restrained with taut lemony fruit and some notes of pear and white peach. Lively and precise with good acidity and nice purity, this has the potential to develop with time, and it’s almost Burgundian in style. 94/100 

Delicious, rich, nutty aromas followed by stem ginger hints on the palate and a dried fruit finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: Malvasia Fina

ABV: 20%

Bright, vibrant ruby red colour, a fine nose, with aromas of wood and cracked black pepper black fruit and notes of spice. Elegant and fresh on the palate, with fine and ripe tannins on the finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: 35% Touriga Nacional, 35% Touriga Franca, 30% Tinta Roriz

ABV: 14%

Food Match: Perfect paired with red meat, game and hard cheese.

Jamie Goode - Wine Anorak: It’s not common to find organic Douro reds, partly because of the issues with weed control on terraced vineyards. But this one, from Kopke, is really good. It has a beautifully floral nose showing expressive cherry and berry fruits as well as a hint of olive. The palate is fresh and supple with bright raspberry and cherry fruit with some cured meat character and also some wild herbs, but always with emphasis on the fruit. A really impressive Douro red with great balance and nice structure as well as alluring fruit. Tastes of its place. 93/100

Bright, floral aromas with wild blackberry and spice. The palate is medium bodied, has ripe bramble fruit, supple tannins and juicy acidity.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Touriga Nacional

ABV: 12%

Food Match: Lentil stews or vegetarian lasagne.

Dried-fruit aromas beautifully combined with vanilla and honey for a silky-smooth and wonderfully balanced flavour. Very, very long finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca,Tinta Barroca

ABV: 20%

Very deep, opaque colour with purple highlights. Great aromatic intensity dominated by matured blueberries and balsamic notes. Perfectly integrated wood with a sweet fruit and spice finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Petit Verdot

ABV: 14%

Dark red in colour, with a fresh vibrant aroma of dark fruits which follows through on the palate along with a mineral character, a youthful wine with good extract and great balance, offering superb "drinkability". Ready to drink now, after a meal, on its own or with soft cheeses.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Field Blend of Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional,
Tinta Francisca and others.

ABV: 20%

Elegant and refined, with stone fruit and toasted brioche notes. On the palate , it is oily and voluptuous, balanced by fresh acidity. Persistent finish.
Limited quantity, individually numbered and signed by the winemaker: only 2,202 bottles made.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: Folgazao and Rabigato 

ABV: 13%

This golden coloured wine has a welcome reductive nose with hints of mineral, gunpowder and stone combined with delicate fruits, citrus and white flowers. Excellent acidity, minerals and herbal touches on the palate this is complex and intense with a lovely long finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: Old Vine Field Blend

ABV: 13%

The wine spent 3 weeks on the skins and was fermented in concrete with minimal interventention. This is a low sulphite wine that is good introduction to the orange wine styles with wonderful texture and tannins.