Quinta do Sibio Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, roasted nuts
✨ Technical Specifications
Quinta do Síbio is one of the Douro's most historic and prestigious estates, located in the celebrated Roncão valley, a sub-region famous for producing wines of immense concentration and structure. Under the stewardship of Real Companhia Velha, this vineyard is characterized by its dramatic, hand-built stone terraces that carve into the steep hillsides. The terroir here benefits from a unique microclimate with hot days and cool nights, allowing the grapes to achieve optimal phenolic ripeness while retaining essential acidity. Quinta do Síbio Vintage Port is crafted only in exceptional years, utilizing traditional foot-treading in granite lagares to maximize extraction of color, tannin, and flavor. The resulting wine is a powerful, deeply colored Vintage Port boasting intense aromas of dark wild berries, rockrose, and spice, backed by robust, velvety tannins that promise outstanding longevity.
🍾 About the Producer
Established on September 10, 1756, by Royal Charter of King D. José I under the auspices of the Marquis of Pombal, Real Companhia Velha stands as Portugal's oldest continuously operating wine company. Entrusted originally with demarcating and regulating the Douro Valley, the company was acquired by the Silva Reis family in 1960. Today, under President Pedro Silva Reis and celebrated head winemaker Jorge Moreira, Real Companhia Velha oversees more than 550 hectares across historic quintas such as Das Carvalhas, De Cidro, Dos Aciprestes, and Do Casal da Granja. While famous for benchmark Port, the house pioneered fine Douro still whites, capitalizing on high-elevation schist and granite plateaus with wide diurnal shifts. Estate whites—most prominently the Quinta de Cidro mono-varietals and field blends spanning Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Alvarinho, and Sémillon (Boal)—rely on precision viticulture and parcel-specific vinification. These wines demonstrate remarkable tension, vibrant natural acidity, and an authentic, mineral-driven reflection of the rugged Douro landscape.
🍇 Grapes
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão
🍷 ABV
20%