White Alva Rage 2022

With a crystal clear dark yellow colour, the nose is fresh and complex, with mineral notes of stone, gunpowder, citrus, apricot and lemongrass. On the palate, it is broad, subtly fresh and with acidity carrying the aromas to a persistent finish.

Ana Paula Lopes and Inácio Loureiro are two Portuguese sommeliers who, at the age of 50, decided to leave the restaurant scene to younger generations and change their lives. Their professional lives took them on trips to the most important wine regions in the world and to taste the best that is produced there. Of the thousands of bottles they have opened, the wines of the Dão region have always enchanted them with their subtlety, elegance and freshness, which, even when they are already quite old, they consider comparable to the great wines of Burgundy.
In 2019, they decided to move from Lisbon to this part of the country that they are so passionate about. They took over a small farm in the mountainous area of ​​the Alva sub-region and, with their skills, started their own wine tourism business to continue doing what they had always loved. Quinta da Aldeia Nova has 3 hectares of stony clay-limestone soils predominantly made up of ferruginous quartz, sandstone and pebbles, at altitudes that
The altitudes vary between 200 and 400 meters between the Açor, Estrela and Lousã mountains. The idea is to create wines similar to the great Dão wines of the past, pure, light and true wines, conceived with great respect for nature and the consumer. The vineyards are worked by Inácio in a natural way, with the application of practices that strengthen the balance of the ecosystem. Several varieties from the region where Baga and Encruzado predominate were planted. The winemaking is low intervention, with spontaneous fermentations, little technology and without the addition of oenological products, carried out in a precise and careful way with the assistance of the consultant oenologist Carlos
Raposo, the result is wines that smell like wine, that are full of energy, but with a structure that is always balanced.