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WINES FROM DÃO
WINES FROM Dão
In these lands protected by some of the most beautiful mountains in Portugal, the cultivation of vines has a centuries-old tradition.
The rivers that cross the region, including the one that gives it its name, run between the green of the fields where pine, chestnut and oak trees predominate. The granite and shale dwellings are coloured by the heather and broom vegetation.
Dão is a strongly distinctive wine, standing out for its unquestionable aging capacity and its evolution in the bottle, resulting in noble, elegant wines, with high potential for aging, an excellent combination with food.
In reds, we have Touriga Nacional, a native grape from Dão, which gives us concentrated, fresh, and elegant wines, as only a granite region and surrounded by mountain massifs can provide.
We also have Jaen, Alfrocheiro or TintaRoriz.
In the whites, we have the Encruzado, another emblematic grape variety, which provides great wines for its unusual minerality and aging capacity and evolution in the bottle and which, in batch with Malvasia Fina, Bical, or Cerceal, provides wines of marked elegance.
FOOD & WINE PAIRING
In the birth place of Touriga Nacional, the finest wines were born. Quality, personality difference, elegance, freshness, and softness. The Dão is all this and more.
Discovering its wines is entering a new world of aromas and flavours that captivate and seduce, and soon become unmistakable and unforgettable.
Dão reds are usually ruby red, with delicate and ripe fruity aromas, in addition to fine tannins, balanced with good acidity and thus have good aging potential.
Whites, in turn, usually have medium body and refreshing acidity, being full of character, especially when they have Encruzado in their blend.
Red Dao is ideal to pair with Serra da Estrela Cheese, Red meat, dishes that combine meat with fruit, such as lamb with apricots.
Chocolate and desserts with chocolates as a base.
One of the secrets of these whites lies in the Encruzado grape variety, which in that region expresses itself without peer. The other, in the significant improvement in viticulture and enology practices of the last decades, something that is common to the generalized increase in the quality of Portuguese wines.
Dão white wines pairs with seafood, grilled fresh fish, white meats, and as an aperitif.
