Quinta dos Aciprestes Grande Reserva Sousao
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb, wild boar stew, mature hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Quinta dos Aciprestes stretches gracefully along the left bank of the Douro River in the Cima Corgo subregion, where the estate's name pays homage to the historic cypress trees ('ciprestes') that dot the landscape. Under the stewardship of Real Companhia Velha, this estate has become a benchmark for terroir-driven still wines. The Grande Reserva Sousão celebrates one of the Douro's most distinctive indigenous grape varieties. Historically valued in Port production for its intense color and high natural acidity, Sousão shines here as a single-varietal showpiece. Sourced from selected hillside parcels planted on vertical schist slopes, the grapes undergo fermentation in stainless steel before aging in French oak barrels. This process tames the grape's rustic power, resulting in a deeply concentrated, ink-colored wine with complex aromas of dark forest fruits, balsamic undertones, and a striking mineral freshness characteristic of the Douro's rugged soils.
🍾 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
Sousão
🍷 ABV
14%