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Pormenor, Douro Branco, 2024

White Wine from Porto & Douro, Portugal
by Pormenor
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A Douro white with the tension of a mountain wine: the fruit comes from field-blend plantings over 40 years old, sitting between 450 and 650 meters on schist at Carrazeda de Ansiães, high enough to hold acidity through a Douro summer. Pedro Coelho, who worked at Quinta do Portal and Niepoort before setting up in a converted garage, blends Rabigato, Malvasia Fina, Códega do Larinho and Gouveio, ferments with indigenous yeasts across stainless steel and neutral French oak, and leaves the wine on its fine lees with no malolactic and no bâtonnage. It is a white built on cut and salinity rather than weight or oak polish. 2024 marked a return to a classic Douro season, with rainfall and temperatures close to the 30-year average and a measured, variety-by-variety harvest, and the wine reads bright and well defined because of it. Organically farmed; serve it cool rather than ice cold so the texture shows.

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Robert Parker

91 points

"The 2023 Branco is the entry-level white trying to show that it can be better than an entry-level. It comes from mica and schist soils and is a blend of Rabigato, Malvasia Fina, Gouveio and Códega do Larinho from old vines and mixes varieties, exposures and altitudes (400 to 550 meters above sea level. Cropped from a challenging year that was better for whites than for reds, this has volume, freshness and acidity. The full clusters were pressed (a constant in all the whites), it fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and was kept in stainless steel with the fine lees for no less than six months. It has moderate ripeness, 12% alcohol and a pH of 3.08, even though 2023 went through full malolactic (not always done). But the wine is vibrant, fresh and clean, with notes of white flowers and fruit, an effervescent palate and a long finish with a stony sensation. This is certainly more than just an entry-level... 40,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2024." —Luis Gutiérrez

More about Pormenor

Douro Valley producer (not Spanish, despite the name) where Pedro Coelho makes terroir-driven wines on steep vineyard slopes. Pormenor's Branco Reserva and bold tintos deliver serious character without pretense—the kind of Portuguese wine that reminds you why the region deserves your attention.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    White Blend

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Grilled sardines, salt cod fritters, clams with garlic and coriander, or roast chicken with lemon.

Tasting Profile

Citrus peel, orchard fruit and dried herbs over a stony, saline core. Light to medium bodied, dry, high acidity, with a firm, faintly bitter-almond finish.