Quinta do Vale D. Dona Maria Curriculum Vitae Branco 2022

Quinta do Vale D. Maria Curriculum Vitae White 2022 is a top-of-the-range white wine from the Douro, crafted to showcase the rarest and most sophisticated aspects of the region’s old white vines. Today, Quinta Vale D. Maria presents this vineyard as Vinha de Martim, a small plot of just 0.6 ha, over 80 years old, situated at altitude and facing north — ideal conditions for preserving freshness, tension and complexity in a white Douro with great ageing potential.

Vintage 2022

The 2022 harvest has produced a serious, deep and highly food-friendly wine, with the natural concentration of old vines, but also the acidity and elegance that come from the altitude. It is a discreet white on first tasting, but one that opens up beautifully in the glass and promises to evolve nobly in the bottle.

Winemaking

Produced from a field blend of over 20 traditional white grape varieties from the Douro, harvested by hand. The wine ferments and matures for 9 months in French oak barrels, with bâtonnage twice a week.

Tasting notes

On the nose, it reveals great complexity: herbal notes, citrus, ripe white fruit, delicate sweet fruit, vanilla and fine spices. On the palate, it is enveloping and flavourful, with lovely freshness, a creamy texture and a long, elegant and persistent finish.

Grape varieties

A field blend from old vines, featuring varieties such as Rabigato, Samarrinho, Donzelinho Branco, Viosinho and Códega, amongst other traditional Douro varieties