White Wine

Mirabilis

2021, 75cl

Douro

Mirabilis

The name comes from Latin and means “something wonderful”, and is also the name of a flower from the subtropics of the Americas.
These wines are born from a great desire to go further. Preservation of viticulture and innovation in oenology result in sublime wines, precise and highly sophisticated, revealing a raw material of excellence.

Mirabilis is made with grapes from small, century-old vineyards where Viosinho and Gouveio predominate, but also a wide range of other varieties of very low production, almost non-existent in the region. Small, tight bunches and single berries mean that the production per hectare does not go beyond 2300 kg, in soils above 500 metres altitude, geologically classified as transitional schist/granite soils, in the parishes of Vilar de Maçada, Cabeda, Tabuaço and Candedo. They give the musts a sublime genuineness, where freshness and aroma are naturally accentuated. The selected wood is purposely second and third year, only a small percentage of new wood, so as not to mark and better integrate slowly the intense fruit, focusing mainly on French and Hungarian oak, resulting in a wine of extreme elegance, where freshness, structure and acidity intertwine. Uno Colage
Whole grape pressing.
Ageing: End of alcoholic fermentation and ageing for 10 months in French (Tronçais, Vosges, Nevers, Jura) and Hungarian oak barrels. Fortnightly “Batonnâge” during the first 5 months.

Awards

18/20 pts – Wine, Portugal
17,5/20 pts – Revista de Vinhos, Portugal
92-94/100 pts – Robert Parker, USA

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo

Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo is a place of extreme beauty in the heart of Douro valley and owned by Amorim family since 1999.
The family connection to the wine comes from afar, through its connection with the export houses of Vila Nova de Gaia in the cork business. Meanwhile the dream came true and the project is now in the hands of the 4th generation of the family.
With a story longer than 250 years, the property displays conserved structures and the cellar original building from 1764, after interventions by the architect Arnaldo Barbosa.
But the «quinta» is much earlier than this and history confirms it as a great land belonging to the Portuguese Royal House, having been identified its first owner in 1725.
The winery produced more than 3,500 barrels of wine from neighboring estates and it was soon ‘integrated in the first demarcation of the region’. The historic sites that are still preserved give notice to this historic weight.
An entrepreneur spirit and family vision did however the difference because, combined with a passionate commitment to the future, determined the beginning of multiple changes to a path of oenological excellence.

Address

Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, S.A

Quinta Nova
5085-222 Covas do Douro – Portugal

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