Stone, slate, and a thousand years of patience.
A working estate built on schist soils, native grape varieties, and the unhurried rhythms of the Douro.
A modern winery, in conversation with its history.
The estate's terraces have shaped wine for more than two thousand years. Today, modern vinification — stainless precision, French oak, granite lagares — meets the same terraces, the same vines, the same patient sun.
We farm native Portuguese varieties: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Sousão. Each parcel vinified separately. Each blend composed slowly, by hand.
Schist walls.
Granite lagares.
Hand-laid schist walls hold the cellar at the cool, even temperature of the Douro hillside. Within them, traditional foot-treading in granite lagares meets temperature-controlled fermentation.
French oak. Time. Restraint.
Our flagship cuvées rest in French oak vats and barriques for 18 to 24 months — the wines kept honest, the oak kept quiet.
A portfolio composed with restraint.
Our cornerstone red. Dark fruit, mineral lift, and the slow tannic structure of schist-grown vines.
From a single high-altitude parcel. Aged 24 months in French oak. Released only in exceptional years.
A study in restraint. Crystalline, saline, and built to age — the quiet ambition of Douro whites.