Selected Wine Tastings

Within our selected wine tastings you can find an outstanding variety of wines from more than 80 producers at your disposal every day at Casa do Arco. We will be delighted to share with you all the history and details behind each label.

BOTA VELHA BRANCO

Grapes – Malvasia Fina | Viosinho | Gouveio | Rabigato | Códega do Larinho | Arinto

Citrine color. Nose with notes of yellow pulp and very floral fruit. In the mouth it shows freshness and acidity very balanced. Long and persistent finish.

QUANTA TERRA GRANDE RESERVA TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Sousão | Touriga Franca

Completely opaque in the center. Aromas of ripe black fruit. With juicy and robust tannins, it presents notes of wild red fruits, spices and vanilla perfectly integrated in its acidity.

FINGERPRINT BRANCO

Grapes – Viosinho | Arinto

Golden yellow color, with climatic hints, light perception of wood, some anise and pine resin. A very full-bodied, very fresh, tense, mineral, wide and very persistent white.

ASSOBIO TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz

Ruby color. Fresh aromas, some ripe raspberry and balsamic nuances. Sophisticated and firm tannins shine in the mouth, freshness and general fineness. Versatile and very
gastronomic.

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BRANCO DA GAIVOSA

Grapes – Malvasia Fina | Gouveio | Arinto

Clear and citrusy. Very expressive and elegant aroma, with white flowers, fresh melon and light vanilla. Good volume in the mouth but very fresh, mineral and complex.

GURU BRANCO

Grapes – Códega de Larinho | Viosinho | Rabigato | Gouveio

Citrine color, very elegant, with aromas of grapefruit, light smoky touch. With a good balance and a long finish.

ENCOSTAS DO BOCHO GRANDE RESERVA

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz

With an intense ruby color, it is a wine that presents great complexity, elegance and aromatic intensity. Black wild fruits, with good notes of wood where it aged. In the mouth it is a hot, voluminous and complex wine, with a balanced acidity, supported by firm and ripe tannins that give it a very intense and persistent finish.

APAIXONADO RESERVA TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz | Tinta.Amarela | Sousão | Tinto Cão

Ruby color is a seductive wine, very fragrant and complex on the nose. With Touriga Nacional dominating, with notes of spices, contact with wood. The used wooden stage softened the wine, so the tannins are velvety in the mouth. It finishes very long, powerful and with the fruit in evidence.

REDOMA RESERVA BRANCO

Grapes – Codega | Rabigato | Donzelinho | Viosinho | Arinto

Citrine color, shows intense notes of fruits dominated by citrus, mineral and very elegant aromas with great complexity of aromas, showing great potential for death, in the tasting it has great depth and complexity with notes of expensive fruits and citrus, with presence of notes minerals and great acidity..

CV BRANCO

Grapes – Rabigato | Blend de Vinhas Velhas com mais de 80 anos

Citrus color.Intense and fragrant aroma, very citrus in the notes of orange peel, ripe lemon. The light smoke from the barrel blends harmoniously with fruit, wine is full, creamy, with excellent fresh lemonade and notes of ginger in the flavor or set. Very long, complex, refined, full of liveliness.

BOA-VISTA RESERVA

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Barroca | Vinhas Velhas

Deep ruby color. With a complex, deep, intense and seductive aroma. Presents notes of red and black fruits, tobacco, spices, and dark chocolate. The tannins are polished, providing longevity, elegant and fresh.

CHURCHILL QUINTA DA GRICHA

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz | Tinto Cão | Vinhas Velhas

Very deep purple color. Concentrated aromas of rock rose and wild violets. In the mouth, thick but elegant. Full of minerality and charm. A wine that shows its natural pedigree.

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CRASTO BRANCO

Grapes – Gouveio | Roupeiro | Cercial | Rabigato

Lemon color, with vibrant aromas of orange blossom and citrus fruit. In the mouth it is very fresh, evolving in an elegant way into a wine of excellent volume and texture, very well integrated in pleasant minerality notes. Finishes fresh, balanced and with good persistence.

QUINTA MARIA IZABEL BRANCO

Grapes – Rabigato | Códega | Viosinho | Vinhas Velhas

Greenish citrus color, it presents a fresh aroma denoting complexity. It has an intense mineral character, which gives freshness, combines with notes of orchard fruit – white plum, citrus fruit – lemon zest, light smoke aroma and spices. Franco in the mouth is mineral, wrapped with acidity tempered by the degree of granted by the partial malolactic made in barrel.

POEIRA BRANCO

Grapes – Alvarinho 85% | Gouveio 15%

Citrus color. With green notes and a citrus tone very pleasant to the nose. Very elegant in the mouth, it has fantastic acidity and above average minerality.

XISTO CRU BRANCO

Grapes – Rabigato | Côdega | Gouveio | Vinhas Velhas

Citrus color. Mineral with aromas of white flowers and citrus notes, slight notes of gunpowder and wet stone. In the mouth it is very fresh and lively, vertical with well marked acidity, showing intensity and concentration of old vines, citrus also in the tasting ends with notes of gunpowder and light wood.

QUANTA TERRA GRANDE RESERVA BRANCO

Grapes – Gouveio | Viosinho

Golden yellow color. Aged for 18 months in French oak barrels. With orchard fruit aromas, not excessive smoked touches and vanilla. The wine in the mouth is intense, with a good structure and balanced between fruit and wood, which gives it a good acidity and a persistent and elegant finish. It also reveals great aging capacity.

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CEDRO DO NOVAL TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz | Syrah

Opaque ruby color. Black pepper and black fruits highlighted, graphite, wet stone, some leather and balsamic notes. In the tasting is a combination of strength and elegance, fine tannin and freshness in the mouth. Long finish, fruity and spicy at the same time.

QUINTA DA LEDA

Grapes – Touriga Franca | Touriga Nacional | Tinto Cão | Tinta Roriz

Opaque ruby color. Black fruit, smooth compote, well wrapped in quality smoked and toasted notes. It has character and elegance. Very fine-tuned in the mouth, full and silky, with its own elegance, freshness of beautiful effect and well-extracted tannins.

QUINTA DO MONTE XISTO TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Sousão

Bright red color. Nose of ripe wild fruits, lively floral, wood already well integrated, mineral notes and huge extension of flavor. Full-bodied, with a solid structure, firm, fresh tannins, wild berries, mineral trace and persistence of beautiful effect.

QUINTA DO VESUVIO TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Amarela

Deep, intense ruby color. Fragrant aroma with notes of wild fruits, rock rose and bergamot. Subtle smoked notes and discreet toast indicate excellent wood integration. Concentrated and burly, but without excess; a great harmony between power and elegance. Delicious flavors of licorice, plum and mineral touch, all wrapped in highly polished tannins.

PINTAS TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas | Cerca de 30 diferentes

Very intense purple color. Violet aromas combined with ripe black berry fruits, spices and dark chocolate. Excellent balance, minerality and freshness, ripe tannins and elegant finish.

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Douro Boys

REDOMA TINTO

Grapes – Tinta Amarela | Touriga Franca | Rufete | Tinta Roriz | Tinto Cão

Lemon color, with vibrant aromas of orange blossom and citrus fruit. In the mouth it is very fresh, evolving in an elegant way into a wine of excellent volume and texture, very well integrated in pleasant minerality notes. Finishes fresh, balanced and with good persistence.

QUINTA DO VALLADO FIELD BLEND TINTO

Grapes – Tinta Roriz | Tinta Amarela | Touriga Franca | Touriga Nacional

Opaque ruby color. Very concentrated, with balsamic notes of oak, fig fruit, blackberry and tobacco. Flavor: Very full-bodied, fleshy with ripe and round tannins. The finish is elegant, mineral, very persistent and complex.

QUINTA VALE D. MARIA TINTO

Grapes – Alvarinho 85% | Gouveio 15%

Citrus color. With green notes and a citrus tone very pleasant to the nose. Very elegant in the mouth, it has fantastic acidity and above average minerality.

QUINTA DO VALE MEÃO VINHA DOS NOVOS TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional

Very vivid color. A very original very floral nose. Delights with its softness. In the mouth it presents a extraordinary elegance, excellent acidity, with fine but present tannins.

QUINTA DO CRASTO VINHAS VELHAS TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas | Cerca de 30 diferentes

Ruby color of beautiful intensity and moderate concentration. Full of compote fruit, that sweet and greedy, beautiful mineral notes, a wine that combines some potency with elegance. It
has stature and structure, full of flavor and surroundings, with quality tannins. It is fresh, alive
with personality, and expansive.

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Douro Boys Top

TURRIS TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas cerca de 130 anos

Violet in color, with ruby touches, it is surprisingly fresh and precise. In a very spicy aroma, with notes of pink pepper, very mineral, combined with the graphite of the schistous soil, and with black cassis fruit. In the mouth it impresses with electricity and elegance, with a very persistent finish.

QUINTA DO VALLADO ADELAIDE TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas cerca de 30 castas diferentes.

Opaque ruby color. Very concentrated. With balsamic notes of oak, fig, black plums and tobacco. Full-bodied, firm, ripe with satin tannins. Mineral notes and a very elegant complex and persistent finish.

QUINTA DO VALE MEÃO TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Amarela | Tinta Barroca

Ruby color of beautiful intensity, very ripe fruit, light floral and mineral notes result in an especially seductive, attractive and rich aroma Full in the mouth, polished texture, involved tannins, integrated wood, it is an impactful red, with claw and complexity.

QUINTA VALE D. MARIA VINHA DO RIO TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Centenárias

Incredibly deep color. There are shades of deep violet, purple and dark red. This wine is made from a 100 year old vine that produces a concentrated wine, full of aromas of ripe red fruits, with a high complexity and elegance that only this vine can create. There is a certain mature attitude towards this wine, which shows aromas of raspberries, plums and black cherries, combined with fresh notes of rock rose, none of these flavors is too obvious and too advanced, but appears with a discreet eleganced.

QUINTA DO CRASTO VINHA DA PONTE TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas | Cerca de 30 diferentes

Opaque in the center, with ruby / violet halo. Young nose, light to medium intensity, closed, showing mainly a beautiful chocolate but hiding the fruit. Medium acidity mouth, with an explosive touch of rich, ripe, fat and sweet fruit, of the type gooseberry, blackberry and black cherry, combined with a lot of milk chocolate and vanilla. Without a doubt, the wood used in the stage is of impeccable quality. Very full-bodied and voluminous, with powerful, super ripe tannins, almost edible, without ever being aggressive. Spectacular, breathes power with possibilities to improve in the bottle for over a decade.

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COCHE BRANCO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas cerca de 80 anos | Rabigato | Códega do Larinho | Arinto

Citrine color. Fresh, light, elegant and persistent. Aromatically balanced, with some barrel notes well integrated into a granitic mineral profile combined with citrus notes and white spices. In the mouth it is deep, fresh, with good structure without weighing, very precise, with a complex and slightly salty finish.

ALVES DE SOUSA PESSOAL BRANCO

Grapes – Malvasia | Gouveio | Viosinho

Opaque ruby color. Very concentrated. With balsamic notes of oak, fig, black plums and tobacco.Full-bodied, firm, ripe with satin tannins. Mineral notes and a very elegant complex and persistent finish.

QUINTA DO PESSEGUEIRO TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas | Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz

Ruby color. Fresh and notes of menthol and red fruits, with a fragrance of moist soil and rock that contributes to a more mineral side. It presents a fresh taste on the palate, with very fine tannins, and then opens with a very fine volume and an infinity of flavors to finish in a fine
and persistent way.

CHRYSEIA TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca

Violet color. In the nose the wine is fruity, rich in black cherries, black plum and chocolate, with the oak well integrated and discreet. Its structure is very rich on the palate with great freshness and minerality. The velvety tannins are long, flexible and elegant. In the mouth it is
long and persistent with a creamy finish.

QUINTA DA TOURIGA CHÃ TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca

Opaque, elegant, pure, delicate fruit, along with balsamic notes, light liqueurs Very juicy and tasty, expressive, satiny, a red full of Douro virtues, always served by great acidity and
structure.

MARIA IZABEL ROSÉ

Grapes – Tinta Roriz | Tinta Francisca

With an open salmon color, it shows an intense aroma with floral notes – Rose, aroma of wild strawberry and a slight accented note. In the mouth it is fresh and delicate, with lots of fresh fruit and good vegetable notes. Very gastronomic, with a good balance between acidity and mineral notes. Long and persistent finish.

QUINTA DO NOVAL TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinto Cão

Deep garnet color. Aromas of ripe black cherry, with spicy notes. In the mouth it is fresh and balanced, suggesting tobacco leaf and plum jam, on a mineral background.

DUAS QUINTAS RESERVA TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz

Intense dark color, garnet, almost opaque. Distinct and deep aroma of orange blossom, mandarin, earth, spices and tobacco leaves. Concentrated mouth, fine tannins, marked above all by a very long finish.

DUORUM O.LEUCURA RESERVA TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Franca | Touriga Nacional

Very deep and dense red color. Intense and complex aroma, dominated by ripe black fruits, such as blackberry and “cassis”, by floral aromas, such as violet and complexed by aromas from its “elevation” in barrel. It is a concentrated, dense, highly structured wine. It has a balanced acidity, firm and very ripe tannins, well involved in its body and volume. Its balance is found in a set of sensations, where concentration, wealth and strength become decisive. These characteristics, together with the great intensity of its retronasal aroma, give it a highly persistent finish, which allows to predict a long evolution.

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VERTICE PINOT NOIR ESPUMANTE

Grapes – Pinot Noir

Light pink color, super thin and elegant, reminiscent of a fresh cherry, with many mineral notes. Fresh mouth with crunchy acidity, it is a very refined, incisive sparkling wine, full of shine, lightness and seduction.

QUINTA NOVA MIRABILIS GRANDE RESERVA BRANCO

Grapes – Viosinho | Gouveio | Vinha muito velha

Citric color with green highlights. On the nose it reveals an unusual complexity, aromas of white fruits with notes of mineral granite, vanilla and cloves. In the mouth, a mixture of sensations and intense acidity, solid structure, linear texture and concentration, resulting in a very complex and intense wine. Long finish, precise and persistent wine, focused and translucent.

QUINTAS DOS MURÇAS VV47 TINTO

Grapes – Touriga Nacional | Touriga Franca | Tinta Roriz | Tinta Barroca | Sousão | Tinta Amarela

Intense in color, still with violet streaks. Very complex, intense and lively aroma, where ripe red fruits stand out, balsamic aromas characteristic of older vines and notes of spices, from their aging in barrel. Of great harmony and elegance, dominated by very fine ripe tannins and balanced acidity. It has a very long and persistent finish, which as a whole, allows to predict a great longevity.

ABANDONADO TINTO

Grapes – Vinhas Velhas | Tinta Amarela | Touriga Franca | Touriga Nacional

Deep ruby color. Great aromatic complexity and freshness, with very exclusive balsamic and tar flavors (but typical of the Abandonado vineyard), licorice and black fruits. Pure refinement, with delicacy, minerality and an extraordinary purity of fruit. Feel the shale, the surrounding forest, the freshness of the altitude, in a pure expression of the nature of the vineyard.