Alvaro Castro

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Country of Origin: Portugal
Location: Pinhanços, Serra da Estrela
People: Alvaro Castro, Owner & Winemaker
Viticulture: Practicing Organic

Items

Alvaro Castro 2019 'DAC' Tinto, Dao DOC Login — In Stock
Alvaro Castro 2019 'Quinta de Saes' Tinto, Dao DOC Login — In Stock
Alvaro Castro 2020 'Quinta de Saes' Tinto, Dao DOC Login — On Order
Alvaro Castro 2018 Quinta da Pellada 'Carrocel' Login WA 97 In Stock

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Wines of Portugal: Álvaro Castro
Wineanorak.com: A review of one of Portugal's top winegrowers

Álvaro Castro is one of the leading producers in Portugal’s Dão region. He began life as a civil engineer, but when he inherited his property in 1980, he began to devote himself to the craft of making wine. Thirty years later, his wines express elegance, finesse, and terroir, while we works to keep alcohol levels under 13.5 percent, preferring a more subtle, balanced wine.

He collaborates with his daughter Maria in the winemaking process. He owns two Quintas: Saes where he lives and where the winery is located; Pellada on a hillside with expansive views and an old grand house he’s restoring, close to the rugged Serra d’Estrela National Park. His vineyards produce indigenous Portuguese grapes such as Touriga Nacional, Alfrocheiro, Jaen, and Sercial.

Reviews

  • Alvaro Castro 2018 Quinta da Pellada 'Carrocel'
    The Wine Advocate
    Rating: 97 (7/29/2022)

    The 2018 Carrocel is Castro's upper-level Touriga Nacional, the old clones from Talhão 5 in the Quinta da Pellada vineyard. It was aged for 28 months in third and fourth-use French oak and comes in at 13.4% alcohol. Just gorgeous, this is the one that has the most finesse, the most flavor and the longest finish of the group in this report. Developing well, this is still very youthful and vibrant, even if the tannins are mostly ripe. This graceful and wonderfully elegant wine relies on understatement and freshness, but the more you drink it, the more you'll want. For one thing, it is just delicious, with blackberries, plums and occasional red fruits. This will age and develop. It is a polished wine. I'd like to see it demonstrate a bit of development, but it's worth leaning up on it today.