A delicate floral and fruity wine that is made from Castelao, Camarate and Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from Portugal's Lisboa region.

Fabulous fleshy red wine with deep colour and powerful flavours thanks to being a four way blend of grapes from Portugal, including the hero red grape of the country, Touriga Nacional. This dark skinned grape provides depth and impressive structure in this blend, which also contains the popular Syrah, Tinta Roriz (Portugal's name for Tempranillo) and a dash of 10% Alicante Bouschet, a red fleshed grape that boosts its powerful fruit aromas. 

100% Chardonnay from Vinho Regional Lisboa.

The vines are planted at a density of 4.200 Plants/ha on clay and limestone soils. The fruit is destemmed and then pressed and fremented at tempreatures around 18 degrees celcius.

With the ideal soil and climate conditions, the result is a top quality, aromatic, concentrated wine. Great diurnal variation results in ripe fruits but supporting acidity.

Syrah is usually regarded as a French grape but it has found a remarkably delicious home in southern Portugal's Alentejo region where its thick skins and ripe black fruit flavours have clearly ripened incredibly well. This deeply coloured, full bodied, intensely flavoursome dry red is made from 100% Syrah and has great aging potential. 

It also drinks exceptionally well right now. Decant and sip in a large glass. Or stash a few bottles in your wine collection and leave them for eight to nine years. 

Stunning medium bodied dry white made from Portugal's delicious Alvarinho grape, best known and loved for its lovely lemon flavours and refreshing depths of dry, savoury aroma notes. 

This is an excellent example of a great white to drink with seafood, fresh or dried. 

About Alvarinho

The hallmark of Alvarinho is its high acidity, which provides this wine with its innate and deliciously succulent freshness - something this tasty little white has in spades. It's medium bodied and totally dry with great character. Portuguese wines are on trend globally, thanks to the discovery of the country's vast range of interesting indigenous grape varieties, mostly red but with increasing volumes of great whites too, such as this wine, which is produced by Casa Santos Lima. This large family owned winery makes a vast range of wines in Portugal and we stock a fascinating and delicious selection here at Regional.

Eight months aging in French and American oak barrels makes this bold red blend a beautiful partner with cheddar or your favourite tasty cheese. It's made from Touriga Nacional, Alicante Bouschet and Syrah, each adding powerful spicy flavour notes and deep plummy flavours, nicely balanced by bold spice and and a lingering, refreshing finish. .

The Alentejo region benefits from the warm Mediterranean climate and ripens deeply coloured red grapes such as this tasty trio.

Delish dark red from Portugal with amazing rich soft flavours that provide great drinking for the price - and even if it cost a lot more. The four indigenous Portuguese grapes in this wine are Touriga Nacional, Tinta Miúda, Camarate and Castelão; each contributes colour, smoothness and ripe plum flavours underpinned by a smoky spicy note adding complexity. 

A fresh white made from a blend of grapes produced in Portugal's Lisboa region. Fresh and aromatic with notes of tropical fruits and citrus on the nose. The palate is light with lively acidity balanced by delicately sweet accents of ripe oranges and mango.

Churchill Grafite is a great red from a great Portuguese wine producer. It's a blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Tinta Roriz (the Portuguese name for Tempranillo), which combine to make a dry, deeply coloured and full bodied wine. Spicy notes add complexity to the layers of ripe blackberry, dark plum and cedar aromas in this fab red wine. Bring on the cold nights. This wine is ideal for them. 

A very Mineral expression of two grapes from the upper Duoro Valley: 

Rabogato a local variety, meaning cats tail, comprising nearly 80% of the wine offers an enticing bouquet of citrus, acacia, stone fruit, and minerals, with a salt-licked finish.

& Viosinho another local variety which tastes somewhere between Chenin Blanc & Gruner Veltliner. The golden apple, greengage plum & Beeswax from Chenin meets the white pepper finish of Gruner.

20% of this wine is fermented in Barrel & the rest in stainless steel gives this wine texture as well as fresh acidity & great minerality.

Dry, delicious dark black fruit flavours with a spicy twist in this modern Portuguese red blend of Castelão, Tinta Roriz and Pinot Noir. This is a stunning combo of two local red grapes with one of the world's most popular French red grapes (Pinot Noir). 

Great drinking now and over the next three to four years. Excellent value for money.

Tasting Notes:

It presents a pale color and a captivating aromatic profile, marked by attractive citrus and orange blossom notes. On the palate, it is fresh and well-balanced, with well-integrated acidity and a persistent, harmonious finish.

About the producer:

In 1933, Clemente da Silva, recently arrived from Brazil, fulfilled his life-long dream of becoming a producer of premium wines that would lead to the international expansion of his business: C. da Silva – an abbreviation of his own name. A year later, he registered the Dalva brand, a contraction of “da Silva”. Simple to pronounce and very Portuguese, the brand achieved rapid success in its different markets.

A Duoro DOC wine combining Viosinho, Malvasia Fina & Codega grown on the slopes of the Tinhela & Corgo rivers in the Douro valley. The Douro Valley is characterised by very hot days & cool nights, high altitudes & deep schist soils which leads to red wines with robust tannin & fruit & white wines with poised acidity & lots of aroma.

The 2024 vintage:

A warm harvest year with average but irregular rainfall. A mild, rainy winter was followed by a similarly warm spring. The growing cycle was long, supported by sufficient soil moisture that allowed for normal vine growth and development. The typically hot, dry summer was followed by a harvest period marked by cooler temperatures in September and some rainfall in October. A year of above-average yields, with grapes in excellent phytosanitary condition and high quality potential.

Harvest & Vinification:

The grapes were carefully selected upon arrival at the winery, and fermentation took place at low temperatures (16ºC) to enhance the fresh, floral fermentation aromas.

ANALYSIS 

Alcohol: 12,5% 

Total Sugars: <0,6 g/l 

Total Acidity: 5,18 g/l (Tartaric Acid)

 pH: 3,39

Muros Antigos Escolha is made from a selection of three excellent white grape varieties: Alvarinho, Loureiro and Avesso. The grape variety Alvarinho cames from the sub-region of Monção and Melgaço. Due to the strategic location of the sub-region, there are ideal conditions for the perfect ripening of the grapes. The presence of Alvarinho in Muros Antigos Escolha provides structure and body. The Loureiro grape variety is located in our vineyards in the Lima sub-region with granitic soils, deep and poor in organic matter. Due to the Atlantic influence of this region, the freshness and salinity are well present as well as the floral perfume typical of the grape variety. Regarding Avesso grape variety from the in Baião region, in the border between the continental climate of the Douro Valley and the maritime influence of Douro Litoral. The soils are dry and poor, granitic sandy loam soils. These characteristics will produce a wine with an acidity and minerality unique, from which we single out a profound balance between acidity, minerality and alcohol content which will deeply improve Muros Antigos Escolha.

Vinification 

Handpicked grapes into small boxes and carried to the winery in a short period of time. Pressing of the whole de-stemmed grape. Cold clarification for 48-72h. Long fermentation at low temperatures of 12- 16ºC. Minimum 3 month ageing on fine lees with regular bâtonnage.

Tasting Notes 

Fruity aromas present, sweet citrus fruits like tangerine and green apple. On the palate, light and fresh, the acidity provides body and structure. The finish is long and persistent, conveying character.

Vinho Verde is Portuguese for green wine and is a refreshingly crisp dry white blend from the northernmost region of Portugal. This lively, zingy little number has the refreshing acidity of Alvarinho (also known as Albarino), the juicy citrus flavours of Arinto and the body of Trajadura, along with its beautiful lemon blossom aromas. Other grapes in this blend include Azal, Avesso and Loureiro.

Altogether, this quirky Portuguese white blend tallies up to a super drinkable, intensely fresh dry white with aromatic appeal and lightness adding year-round drinkability.