The Winery Altivo of Dão of Beiras

Winery Altivo - Dão Branco
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 319 of the estates of Beiras.
It is located in Dão in the region of Beiras

The Winery Altivo is one of the best wineries to follow in Dão.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Dão to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Altivo wines

Looking for the best Winery Altivo wines in Dão among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Altivo wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Altivo wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Altivo

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Altivo

How Winery Altivo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of seafood risotto, gougèress or pollock with mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Altivo

On the nose the white wine of Winery Altivo. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, red fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Altivo

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Altivo.

  • Malvasia Fina
  • Fernao Pires
  • Encruzado

Discovering the wine region of Dão

The wine region of Dão is located in the region of Beiras of Portugal. We currently count 316 estates and châteaux in the of Dão, producing 1397 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Dão go well with generally quite well with dishes .

The top red wines of Winery Altivo

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Altivo

How Winery Altivo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of improved horse steak, lamb colombo or valencian paella - family recipe.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Altivo

On the nose the red wine of Winery Altivo. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Altivo. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Altivo

  • 2015With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Altivo.

  • Trincadeira
  • Touriga Nacional
  • Jaen

Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

Discover the grape variety: Fernao Pires

In Portugal, it is one of the most planted white grape varieties, and we have found it to be very similar to the torrontés grown in Spain (Galicia). It can be found in Australia and South Africa, but is almost unknown in France.

News about Winery Altivo and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers

According to lifestyle and happiness guru Gretchen Rubin, you ‘bring your own weather to a picnic’. Ms Rubin, I’d suggest, has never shivered under a tree watching raindrops turn her fish-paste sandwich to mush because the weather forecast was wrong. There are, it’s safe to say, picnics and Picnics. It’s a term that takes in everything from a rubber baguette in a French ‘Aire’ off the Autoroute du Soleil to a four-course spread while listening to opera at Glyndebourne. What’s definitely true is ...

The word of the wine: Hautain (en)

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