Chão dos Eremitas Os Paulistas White
Chão dos Eremitas Os Paulistas White stands out for its commitment to sustainability and organic production in Alentejo. Vinified with passion and respect for the environment, this white wine is the result of a manual night harvest, following practices that preserve the purity and essence of the grapes.
In the glass, it shines with a citrus yellow color, revealing aromas of linden and citrus, with a touch of dried leaf. The well-measured acidity and rich texture give it a distinct personality and a memorable unctuousness, reinforced by delicate dairy notes on the palate.
Perfect to accompany a variety of rich white fish dishes, from lily to sea bream, this wine complements both the simplicity of grilling and the richness of dishes with cream or butter. Chão dos Eremitas Os Paulistas White is a sublime choice for wine lovers who value quality, authenticity and environmental responsibility.
Maçanita Reserva White
Prepared with the utmost care, Maçanita Reserva White is an exceptional wine. The grapes are harvested manually and gently transported to the cellar.
The winemaking process is meticulous, combining traditional and modern techniques. Part of the wine ferments in stainless steel, preserving the fresh aromas, while another part ages in oak barrels, gaining complexity and structure.
The result is a wine with a bright citrus color, with seductive citrus and mineral aromas. On the palate, it is silky and balanced, with a vibrant acidity that prolongs the pleasure.
Maçanita Reserva White is the perfect companion for oven-roasted white meats, grilled fish and delicate soufflés. An unforgettable gastronomic experience awaits you.
Maçanita Red
Try Maçanita Red, an emblematic wine that reflects the diversity and richness of the Baixo and Cima Corgo vineyards, cultivated at an altitude of approximately 100 meters. Through a meticulous manual harvesting process, followed by cold pre-fermentation, spontaneous fermentation and a careful 12-month aging in stainless steel vats, this wine achieves exceptional quality and complexity.
With an intense violet ruby color and a ripe nose that evokes floral and black fruit notes, Maçanita Red stands out for its full-bodied structure, smoothness and remarkable persistence in the mouth. This wine is the ideal companion for spicy meat dishes and a selection of cheeses, promising to enhance the richness of flavors with its striking and harmonious presence.
Choose Maçanita Red for special moments or to elevate your everyday gastronomic experience, and let yourself be seduced by a wine that is the pure expression of the Douro's unique terroir.
Maçanita Os Caniveis Red
Discover Maçanita Os Canivéis Red, a distinctive wine that was born in the heart of Carlão, in Cima Corgo. Originating from venerable vineyards, aged between 80 and 92 years old and located at an altitude of 520 meters, this wine is a reflection of the unique transition from schist to granite soils.
Winemaking is a tribute to tradition, with horse farming and manual harvesting in 18kg boxes. The combination of partial de-stemming with a whole bunch and a prolonged maceration of 40 days, followed by an 18-month aging in neutral French oak barrels, gives Maçanita Os Canivéis Red an exceptional character.
This wine has a ruby violet color, brightened by notes of fresh fruit and dark chocolate. In the mouth, it offers a creamy entry, accompanied by firm tannins and a long persistence. Perfect to accompany dark meats, Asian cuisine and intense cheeses, Maçanita Os Canivéis Red promises an unforgettable winemaking experience.
Maçanita Letra F Red
Discover Maçanita Letra F Red, an exceptional wine that reflects the uniqueness of the Carlão terroir, rising between 480m and 720m in altitude. Through careful cold pre-maceration and spontaneous fermentation in a lagarete, followed by a 28-day cuvaison, this wine is matured for 12 months in stainless steel, preserving its pure and vibrant essence.
Featuring a luminous ruby color, Maçanita Letra F Red reveals a bouquet of aromas where mineral notes, white flowers and red fruits stand out. In the mouth, it surprises with its freshness and vivacity, accompanied by a distinctly marked acidity that reveals the intensity and aromatic richness of the old vines.
Perfect to accompany a variety of cuisine, from dark-colored fish, tartare, to grilled meats, cheeses and mild-tasting desserts. Maçanita Letra F Red is a versatile choice that promises to enrich any table with its elegance and depth.
Maçanita White
From vineyards at 580-700m altitude, in the Douro region, Maçanita White is born. Harvested manually, with a whole bunch and direct press, this wine is cold decanted and fermented at low temperature.
Bright yellow in color, Maçanita White has a fresh and intense nose, dominated by floral notes. In the mouth, it is creamy and fruity, with a refreshing finish.
Aging for 6 months in stainless steel vats adds complexity and balance to this high-altitude wine. Discover Maçanita White and experience the elegance and freshness of a truly remarkable wine.
Maçanita Fontainhas White
Experience the uniqueness of Maçanita Fontainhas White, a wine that was born in the heart of Cima Corgo, in Carlão. This nectar originates from centuries-old vines, 120 years old, located at an impressive altitude of 733 meters, on pure granite soils.
The dedication to traditional viticulture is evident in the plowing carried out on horseback and the manual harvest, guaranteeing grapes of exceptional quality, carefully transported in 18kg boxes. Vinification follows respectful methods, with direct whole-bunch pressing and spontaneous fermentation in barrels, culminating in a 12-month aging period in neutral barrels.
Maçanita Fontainhas White reveals itself to be austere in aroma, with a distinct mineral touch and delicate dry vegetal notes, giving it a notable aromatic definition and a mysterious character. The high acidity and freshness stand out, revealing an exceptional complexity in the mouth. This is a white wine of rare finesse and originality, perfect for connoisseurs looking for unique wine experiences.
Maçanita Pala Pinta Red
Discover Maçanita Pala Pinta Red, a jewel of Cima Corgo viticulture. Originally from Carlão, this wine comes from ancient vineyards, 110 to 130 years old, located between 580 and 720 meters above sea level, where schist and granite soils merge, resulting in a limited and highly concentrated production of 1100kg/ha.
Made with dedication and respect for traditions, Maçanita Pala Pinta Red is the result of manual harvesting and horse farming, followed by vinification that favors partial stemming and a long maceration of 40 days. Aging for 18 months in French oak barrels gives it a balanced and refined maturation.
This wine has a luminous ruby violet color, opening into vibrant notes of fresh fruit complemented by delicate aromas of resin. In the mouth, it stands out for its great complexity, silky texture and captivating depth. Perfect to accompany rich and intense dishes, Maçanita Pala Pinta Red is an exceptional choice for special moments.
Maçanita As Olgas Red
Explore the elegance and complexity of Maçanita As Olgas Red, a wine that was born in the centuries-old vineyards of Carlão, Cima Corgo. Grown at an altitude of 480 meters in soils that harmonize schist and granite, this wine promises a unique experience with an exclusive production of 2400kg/ha.
Carefully crafted using traditional techniques, including horse plowing and manual harvesting, Maçanita As Olgas Red goes through a meticulous winemaking process. The combination of partial stemming and prolonged maceration for 40 days, followed by an 18-month aging period in French oak barrels, gives it unparalleled quality.
This wine is distinguished by its ruby violet color and open notes of red fruit and balsamic aromas. In the mouth, it surprises with its volume, texture and depth, with firm and persistent tannins. Ideal to accompany red meats, game dishes and cheeses, Maçanita As Olgas Red is a true celebration of excellent winemaking.
Maçanita Touriga Nacional Letra A Red
Descubra o Maçanita Touriga Nacional Letra A Red, um vinho de excelência que captura a essência da tradição vinícola. Carefully selected, Touriga Nacional grapes are harvested by hand, ensuring maximum quality. In the cellar, a cold pre-maceration and spontaneous fermentation reveal the depth of its character, followed by a careful aging in French oak barrels.
This distinctive wine boasts a dark and concentrated violet color, enriched by a bouquet of intense red fruits and subtle notes of menthol. Ripe fruit intertwines with soft tannins to create a rich and memorable tasting experience, culminating in a persistent aftertaste.
Perfeito para acompanhar pratos de caça ou carnes vermelhas condimentadas, bem como queijos de caráter forte, o Maçanita Touriga Nacional Letra A Red é uma escolha sublime para momentos especiais. Invite refinement to your table and let yourself be seduced by this extraordinary wine.
Maçanita Vale da Barca White
Explore Maçanita Vale da Barca White, a wine that emerges from the historic vineyards of Carlão, in Cima Corgo, planted in granite soils at 530 meters of altitude, with 140 years of history. This wine, the result of meticulous farming and manual harvesting, is revealed through direct whole-bunch pressing and spontaneous fermentation in barrels, culminating in a 12-month aging period in neutral barrels.
In the glass, a spectacle of aromas unfolds that include ripe grapefruit, fruity nuances, Mediterranean herbs, flint and subtle spicy touches, displaying unparalleled nobility. The perfect reduction gives it additional complexity and tension. On the palate, the wine presents a masterful harmony between the strength of ancient vines, depth and an almost ethereal lightness. Despite its density, it maintains a fresh mineral core, with citrus and fruity notes that emerge gently, accompanied by a refreshing herbal aroma and saline minerality. The elegant tannic structure ensures almost infinite persistence at the end of the tasting.
Maçanita Vale da Barca White is a monument of wine, promising a rich and memorable sensory experience.
Maçanita Reserva Red
Discover Maçanita Reserva Red, a wine that is the result of a careful winemaking process, with grapes meticulously harvested by hand and transported in small boxes to preserve their integrity. In the cellar, a cold pre-maceration gives way to spontaneous fermentation, followed by a prolonged 26-day cuvaison. This wine matures mainly in neutral French oak barrels, complemented by aging in stainless steel tanks for 18 months, ensuring perfect harmony between fruit and structure.
Presenting a dark violet color, Maçanita Reserva Red seduces with a rich aroma of red fruits and softly rounded tannins, culminating in an intense and long-lasting aftertaste. This wine is the ideal choice to accompany a wide range of dishes, from white to red meat, adapting perfectly to both traditional recipes and modern kitchen innovations. A true celebration of elegance and flavor.
Crosta Calcária dos Profetas White
Discover Crosta Calcária dos Profetas White, a wine that emerges from the unique geological zone in the north of Porto Santo Island. This region, characterized by the compactness of the limestone, gives the wine a unique minerality, reminiscent of the aromas of the sea and offering a wine experience of another dimension.
Viticulture is carried out using traditional methods, with old vines, between 40 and 80 years old, planted in limestone soils, protected from strong winds by reed beds and walls. Winemaking is meticulous: after rigorous selection and staggered harvests, the grapes are pressed whole. The must is decanted into fractions without SO2, allowing pre-oxidation and spontaneous fermentation. The musts ferment on lees in stainless steel vats and barrels, where they mature for 11 months.
This wine has a pale yellow color and an intensely saline and mineral nose, with nuances of gunpowder and iodine. In the mouth, it is full and textured, echoing the aromas with a remarkable persistence. Perfect for pairing with flavors from the sea, especially scallops and clams, Crusta Calcária dos Profetas White is an invitation to explore the richness of limestone soils through a glass.
Arinto dos Açores Solera White
Explore Arinto dos Açores Solera White, a wine that captures the essence of a unique terroir, located in the middle of the Atlantic, on the slopes of the Pico volcano. The vineyards, embraced by the sea breeze and protected by walls against saline winds, are cultivated in volcanic soils with histories of up to 2000 years, guaranteeing proximity to the sea that gives the wine an incomparable uniqueness.
The vinification of this example begins with a selective manual harvest, followed by full pressing of the bunches and spontaneous fermentation, without the addition of SO2, in horizontal vats. The wine matures in a Solera system for 4 years, enriching its character.
Presenting a luminous straw yellow color, it reveals intense, tertiary and mineral aromas, with notes of iodine, honeycomb and citrus fruits. In the mouth, it is tense, textured and complex, standing out for its minerality and striking acidity.
Perfect to accompany seafood dishes, sausage, fish broth or stew, Arinto dos Açores Solera White is an exceptional choice for those looking for an intense, fresh wine full of complexity.
Vinha dos Aards White
Discover Vinha dos Aards White, a unique wine born from the volcanic soils of Criação Velha, with around 1500-2000 years of history. This 96-year-old organic vineyard is located just 60 meters from the sea, in cracks in the volcanic rock, protected by walls from the saline winds of the Atlantic.
The vinification of this wine follows artisanal methods: manual harvesting, rigorous selection, direct pressing and spontaneous fermentation, aging for 18 months on lees without batonnage, combining stainless steel and French oak perfectly.
With a citrus yellow color and touches of straw, it reveals aromas of iodine, salt and linden, complemented in the mouth by a notable density and vibrant acidity, ending with intense notes of salt and iodine. It is a wine that evokes the sea in every sip.
Perfect to accompany seafood, fish or even fatty white meats, Vinha dos Aards White is a sublime choice for those looking for a wine with a strong character and a deep connection to its maritime terroir.
Sabor(z)inho by António Maçanita Red
Saborinho, also known as Tinta Negra or Molar de Colares, is one of the traditional red varieties from the Azores islands that almost disappeared from the vineyards. Sabor(Z)inho has a good texture, elegance and good acidity. A fresh, open-coloured, iodized, saline, complex red with the flavor of something that could only have been born in the sea.
Palpite Reserve Red
Palpite Reserve White
White produced from traditional Alentejo grape varieties: Arinto, Alicante White and old blended vines, with minimal intervention, without the addition of sulfur dioxide until the end of fermentation and spontaneous fermentation in barrels and long aging on lees. Citrine straw yellow color. Intense, complex aroma, which combines notes of grapefruit, orange peel, with some fresh cream. On the palate textured attack, with present freshness, retro rich, intense. Persistent finish.
Fitapreta Red
Selective manual harvest in 20 Kg boxes. Selection at the selection table. Vat filling by gravity. Spontaneous alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. “Cuivason” of 15 days. Aged for 12 months, 50% in French oak and 50% in vats. Concentrated violet color. Intense nose of fresh black fruits with notes of dried grass. Full-bodied, rich and gluttonous attack with notes of toffee and the aftertaste revealing firm and round tannins.
Rosé da Fitapreta Cuvée nº6
An “undated” Rosé that combines the freshness of younger vintages with the complexity of aging on lees, which only older vintages can give. It is fine and complex, without ever ceasing to be fresh and simple, as a great Rosé should be. Very light salmon colour. It has a creamy texture on the palate that is balanced with a refreshing acidity.
Chão dos Eremitas Os Paulistas Red
The Paulistas, name given to the Hermits of the order of São Paulo who made their wine in this place for so long, that this date was lost in the memories. However, the Papal Bull of 1397 exempted “Os Paulistas” from taxes on their vineyards, demonstrating the importance of this location. The place is special and receives two streams that bring water from Serra D’Ossa and keep the water nearby and the soil fresh, with no need for watering for the good development of the grapes. The grapes, also from another time, planted in 1970, Tinta Carvalha, Moreto, Castelão, Alfrocheiro and Trincadeira, demonstrate that there was another Alentejo, without irrigation and without improving varieties. An Alentejo worth recovering, this is our tribute to the Paulistas. Nocturnal manual harvest, selected on a sorting table, 30% whole bunch and 70% destemmed, falling by gravity into the vat. Spontaneous fermentation and maceration between 25 and 40 days, followed by an 18-month aging in French oak barrels with more than three years. Ruby color with some violet touches, medium concentration. On the nose, lots of red forest fruit, some undergrowth. Fresh attack, good fruit with hints of pomegranate. Very thin, long and with structure.
Chão dos Eremitas Tinta Carvalha Red
100% Tinta Carvalha. Tinta Carvalha is a grape variety from the old Alentejo strain, 1/2 sister to Castelão and Moreto and daughter of the crossing of the Sarigo x Alfrocheiro Preto grape varieties. The grapes, on granite soils and under a certified integrated protection regime, are selected on a sorting table, 30% of the whole bunch and 70% destemmed, falling by gravity into the vat. Spontaneous fermentation and 40-day maceration in film, followed by a 12-month aging in stainless steel vats. Very open, ruby color, intense fresh nose, notes of bitter red fruit, pomegranate notes of graphite. Very fine, elegant tense attack with lots of depth and tension. A red that shows that the Alentejo can be something else.
Chão dos Eremitas Moreto Red
100% Moreto. Moreto is a grape variety from the old Alentejo strain, sister to Castelão and daughter of the crossing of Sarigo x Alfrocheiro Preto grapes. The grapes, on granitic soils and in a certified integrated production system, are selected on a sorting table, 30% whole bunch and 70% destemmed, falling by gravity into the vat. Spontaneous fermentation and 40-day maceration in skins, followed by an 18-month aging in old barrels. Intense ruby color, medium concentration, almost ripe black fruit, with forest notes, full attack, concentrated with good freshness and persistent structure at the end of the tasting.
Chão dos Eremitas Castelão Red
A 100% Castelão, a disconcerting wine, which demonstrates the role of this variety in the ancient Alentejo strains. Freshness and purity. The grapes are selected on a sorting table, 30% whole bunch and 70% destemmed, falling by gravity into the vat. Spontaneous fermentation, 35-day aging and 18-month barrel aging. Fragile ruby garnet color. Very fine aroma, with hints of plum, tobacco and spices, on the palate the attack is medium bodied with good freshness. The texture mounts in the middle of the tasting, all in elegance, it ends with present and firm tannins.
