Quinta da Carolina | Wines
The complexity coupled with elegance a genuine Douro character and unique style. The Quinta is located in the DOC region of the Douro Valley, in the left hand of the Douro river in the Cima Corgo sub-region, 4km south of Pinhão.
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El3mento
Loureiro Branco 2024
El3mento White was born in 2024 following a passion for the Lima Valley, a specific terroir for the variety Loureiro white. Luís Pedro studied Agricultural Engineeting in the valley and developed a relationship with it and always wanterd to ocme back to make something and in 2023 he convinced his mother and uncle to invest in a property and to plant 1.2ha of Loureiro, that is still growing now and hopefully will be ready to make some wine in 2027.
As we still have no grapes yet, we had to purchase grapes in the region to makeit our first trial – we bought in grapes from Moreira do lima, a very noble region to produce wuality Loureiro, that is the place we’ve chosen to make this wine, but in the future it will probably come out of our own vineyards. The grapes were harvested on the 10th of September, one part was destemmed and put into an 1000L anfora with the skins, and the other part pressed to old barrels.
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Córtex has several fundamental roles in our superior cognitive functions, such as conscience, perception, attention, motivation, memory and problem solving. In here, in these functions, lies the origin of this wine.
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Xisto Amarelo tinto 2021
QUINTA DA CAROLINA
Xisto Amarelo was born in 2017 from working with the same vineyard over 10 years, Amarelinha vineyard, characteristic from it’s yellow schist (xisto amarelo), planted in patamares in the beginning of the millennium, facing east and surrounded by forest, with Touriga Francesa as the major variety, along with a little of Tinta Amarela.
2021 was a very balanced year, with a very wet February followed by a dry and quiet warm spring that provided a healthy floration and a production above normal in Douro. June was quite unstable, with thunderstorms and hale, but we were very lucky that didn’t affect our vineyard, so the grapes were very healthy with an extraordinary balance between sugar and 2nd acid. Grapes were harvested on the of September of 2021.
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Xis Douro 2020
QUINTA DA CAROLINA
Xis was born in 2019 from a search for the best white grape vineyards in the Adorigo/Barcos region in the council of Tabuaço – Douro..
Very old vines, with schist soils, over 90 years old, exposure to the North between 500 and 550 meters of altitude, with mostly Malvasia Fina, among other varieties with less weight in the vines such as Gouveio, Rabigato, Dona Branca and Viosinho.
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El3mento is a partnership between Luís Pedro Cândido da Silva and Carmelo Peña Santana. Since university that the plan was one day to make wine together, so after 5 years of thinking and sharing ideas, in 2017 El3mento was born in Douro. The choice was a specific vineyard, a centenary one, field blend at 600 meters high in Barcos – Tabuaço. A spontaneous fermentation in Amphora, whole bunch, light foot tread with no temperature control and macerated for 4 months – work in the limit of volatility with low levels of sulfur dioxide was always an idea, that’s an high risk that was taken and due to that the El3mento wine is not released every year.
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Special Reserve 2011 Douro
QUINTA DA CAROLINA
- The Quinta Carolina Reserve Red is a wine produced with the best quality grapes from the Quinta, only in the best years. An early harvest preserves the freshness, acidity and minerality, promoting aging in bottle.
- Dark ruby color, the nose with notes of red fruit, chocolate and a thin wood well present, the Quinta da Carolina Reserva Tinto is an elegant, fresh wine with velvety tannins and persistent endind in the mouth. While young is exciting, with typical character of the Douro wines, but more complex with a few years of guard.
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Quinta da Carolina 2019
CAROLINA
- Quinta da Carolina 2019 is a wine with a little extracted profile, we look for the elegance and freshness that an old vineyard exposure to the north can give us. Open ruby color, shallow, with herbal notes combined with fresh fruit on the nose, deep and persistent in the mouth with the Douro characteristics very present and notes of wooden stage. A wine to enjoy as young, but with clear aging ability.
Advisable for decanting
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Red Douro 2003
QUINTA DA CAROLINA
- Made with grapes from Quinta da Carolina, demarcated Douro region, Cima Corgo sub-region, located on the left bank of the Douro River, 4 Kms south of Pinhão, with exposure to the north.
- Vineyard over 25 years old.
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- The Carolina Red is the result of a blend from several vineyard parcels of the Quinta. It gets in the second year barrels of the Quinta Carolina Reserve Red, making it less marked by the wood and usually coming out sooner to the market.
- With a deep color, aromas of red fruits and spices, Carolina Tinto is a balanced, fresh and elegant wine, with a great price / quality ratio.
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Douro White 2022
CAROLINA
- The Carolina White wine is the result of the selection of grapes from the higher areas of the Douro region, more precisely the Tabuaço region, where comes the Viosinho and Rabigato varieties planted on granite soil, and Murça from which the Códega do Larinho variety comes, planted on schist soil.
- A clear color, citrus with floral notes on the nose, Carolina White has a great intensity, resultant of the complexity of the two types of soil. Balanced in the mouth, elegant, fresh, with notes of grapefruit and a long mineral finish.
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