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Mateus Nicolau de Almeida 'Mater-Dome' Tinto 2023
€64.41
VAT included
Mater-Dôme Red 2010
Mater-Dôme Red 2010 comes from Mêda, in the Upper Douro, a high-altitude region “rediscovered” by Mateus Nicolau de Almeida and Teresa Ameztoy. Although part of the Douro, Mêda has a character all its own, situated between the Dão and the Douro, with schist/granite transition soils, more rainfall, milder summers, and cold winters. It is precisely from this identity that Mater-Dôme is born: the “essence of the heights.”
Vinification
The blend combines Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Tinta Barroca from old vines growing at altitudes up to 600 meters. Vinification is classic, with fermentation in vats followed by about 20 days of maceration. The wine then ages for 2 years in used French oak barrels and an additional extended period in vats, an unusual aging process that preserves freshness and slowly develops the tertiary notes. In 2025, the entire production was bottled in magnums.
Tasting Notes
On the nose, it is intense and sophisticated, with notes of black forest soil, blueberries, blackberries, and delicate red fruits. On the palate, it is fluid, harmonious, and smooth, with polished tannins, rare elegance, lively acidity, and a very pronounced aromatic persistence. A different kind of Douro, closer to finesse than to weight, and for that very reason so special.
Grape Varieties
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Tinta Barroca. 13.5% ABV.
- Wine Type
- Red Wine
- Format
- 1,5L
- Vintage
- 2010
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Douro
- Robert Parker
- RP96
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The 2010 Mater-Dôme Tinto is a serious, classical and austere blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barroca from a terroir of schist and granite at up to 600 meters above sea level, where there is more rain, milder summers and cooler winters. This fermented in stainless steel and matured in used French oak barrels of different sizes for two years and then spent 13 years in tank. 2010 was a very good in Mêda, unlike in the rest of the Douro. It has great aromatic complexity that's hard to place, and the wine is more refined than the majority of reds from Douro, somewhere between Burgundy and the Northern Rhône perhaps. It's elegant and nuanced, and the palate is sleek and polished, balanced and very tasty. It has contained ripeness, 13.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.61. It is really very good, unusual and elegant. In 2025, the whole production was bottled in magnums, 2,000 of them. The price listed is for a magnum.
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