Vale de Raposa Branco 2023
€ 13.54
| Producer | Alves de Sousa |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Malvasia Fina, Gouveio, Viosinho |
| Ageing | 70% stainless steel, 30% 4 months in French oak with lees stirring |
| Alcohol | 13%vol |
| Serving | 10°C Store at 12°C |
| Drinking window | Now and for 5 to 6 years |
Vale da Raposa Branco: lime, fresh mango and cut grass, fresh and mineral.
Tasting note
Bright straw yellow. Very expressive, with notes of lime, fresh mango and cut grass. Mineral, very fresh and full of character.
The story
Quinta do Vale da Raposa borders Quinta da Gaivosa. The family bought its roughly 18 hectares in the late 1980s, and it was here that the first own wine was made in 1991, a white.
70% of the wine fermented and aged in stainless steel, 30% in French oak barrels, for 4 months with lees stirring.
Food pairing
Ideal with fried calamari with lemon-herb sauce, goat’s cheese, grilled halibut with coriander sauce or Asian soup with wontons.
The producer
Winemaking is a family tradition for Domingos Alves de Sousa: his father Edmundo and his grandfather Domingos were already Douro winegrowers. Trained as a civil engineer, in 1987 he devoted himself fully to the quintas he had inherited. For years he supplied grapes to big houses such as Casa Ferreirinha and Borges. After the crisis of the late 1980s and the disastrous 1988 harvest, he decided to make and bottle his own wine. He built a winery at Quinta da Gaivosa and in 1992 released his first wine, the Quinta do Vale da Raposa Branco 1991.
Revista de Vinhos named him Producer of the Year in 1999 and 2006: he was the first ever to win the title twice. Since 2002 his son Tiago, who holds a doctorate in viticulture, has been the winemaker. The family uses only grapes from its own six quintas: Gaivosa, Vale da Raposa, Caldas, Estação, Aveleira and Oliveirinha.
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