Quinta de Azevedo Torre Grande Escolha 2023
£22.75
The wine
Bright yellow with youthful hues. Highly complex peach and apricot aromas.
Torre Grande is a single-vineyard bottling from the estate tower vineyard, given time in bottle rather than released in the spring after harvest as most Vinho Verde is. That patience is the whole point: the region reputation for thin, sharp wine came from picking early and selling young, and holding back selected parcels shows what the grapes can actually do. Quinta de Azevedo is a sixteenth-century estate at Barcelos in the Vinho Verde, replanted to modern low trellising rather than the traditional high pergolas.
The producer
Quinta de Azevedo
View all Quinta de Azevedo winesQuinta de Azevedo is one of the most beautiful and celebrated estates in Vinho Verde, its seventeenth-century manor house and vineyards a landmark of Portugal verdant northwest. Part of the Sogrape family, it has long set the standard for the region fresh, aromatic whites.
The vineyards lie in the Cavado valley, where granite soils and a cool, damp Atlantic climate give the wines their signature freshness, delicate spritz and vivid aromatics. Loureiro and Alvarinho are the stars, farmed and vinified with precision.
The range spans the classic, thirst-quenching Vinho Verde, varietal Alvarinho and Loureiro Escolha bottlings, and the ambitious Torre and Honra cuvees that show just how serious and age-worthy the region can be.
Fresh, fragrant and impeccably made, Quinta de Azevedo captures the joy of Vinho Verde while proving its potential for real depth and class.






