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Barão de Vilar White Port NV (750ml)
Price: $12.99
Sale Price: $9.95
a blend of selected young ports matured in large oak vats "tonels" keeping a young, fruity character
| Producer | Barão de Vilar White Port |
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| Country | Portugal |
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| Region | Douro |
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| Subregion | Port |
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| Varietal | Gouveio, Donzelinho, Viosinho and Malvasia Fina |
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| Sku | 24794 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Port Wine is a fortified wine that results from the interruption of the fermentation process by adding brandy, hence keeping the residual sugar of the grape. Port is produced exclusively in the Wine Region of the Douro, in the North of Portugal and it can be divided into three distinct categories: white, tawny and ruby, having recently emerged a new one - rosé.
White Port
White Port is made exclusively from white grapes harvested in the Douro Wine Region, and assumes different styles, according to its degree of sweetness - the description of dry, medium-dry or sweet, being the last one called Lágrima. It is a young port wine, kept in wood casks where it ages for at least 3 years. It features a pale hay colour.
Origin: DOC Porto
Grape Varieties
Gouveio, Donzelinho, Viosinho and Malvasia Fina
Tasting Notes
The Barão de Vilar White Port is a blend of selected young ports matured in large oak vats "tonels" keeping a young, fruity character.
Ready to drink, can be enjoyed on its own or as an aperitif or digestive.
Alcohol: 19,5%
Winemaker: Álvaro van Zeller
Barão de Vilar White Port Description
Barao De Vilar
Established Since 1715
Barão de Vilar – Vinhos, SA is the most recent company of Port wine, established in January 1996 from a small stock of wine bought by Fernando Luis van Zeller and given to his sons Fernando and Álvaro.
The company’s institutional name recovers a noble title granted by the Queen of Portugal D. Maria II to Cristiano Nicolau Kopke, the 1st Baron of Vilar, back in 1836, which remains, by legacy, in the family’s rightful heir possession. Before Barão de Vilar – Vinhos SA was built, the van Zellers were owners of Quinta do Noval, one of the most iconic and renowned estates of the Port Wine business sector and from where comes the mythical "Vintage 1931 Nacional”, considered one of the two best wines of the world in the 20th Century by Wine Spectator magazine.
It was also at Quinta do Noval that the current winemaker of Barão de Vilar – Vinhos SA, Álvaro van Zeller, initiated his professional career in the wine industry.
Expansion To Douro
In the year of 2007, Barão de Vilar – Vinhos, SA decided to expand its range of products to the production of Douro wines. It then set off an investment project related to the construction and equipment of a modern winery in Santa Comba da Vilariça, in the heart of Douro Superior, assuming direct management over all technological variables essential for the production of top quality Douro wines.
Nowadays, the Barão de Vilar – Vinhos, SA, built upon the experience and knowledge acquired over 14 generations of wine producers, presents itself as a modern company with a sound financial structure and a management team with a proven track record, endowed with the most advanced technology. With a full range of Port and Douro wines, Barão de Vilar – Vinhos, SA is currently present in a significant number of international markets.
Saião Estate - A true rough diamond…
The 80 ha of Saião Estate is located in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in the Upper Douro. As it is situated nearby Pocinho Village and the Rock Art of Côa Valley Archaeological Site, this area is two times declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
In a glance, the Saião Estate is an idyllic place for quietness and introspective time, delighting with remarkable sights and privileged conditions for Port and Douro wine production.
From the 80 ha, 9 ha are dedicated to vineyards, which 5 ha were planted recently and equipped with irrigation system. But the Saião soil has potential to extend its vineyards up to 40 ha.
Saião Estate gathers high quality conditions, not only for wine production but for olive oil and other products made with olives, as in the Estate premises there are over than 450 olive trees.
Origins
The known origins of the van Zeller family refer back to the 13th Century, to the Flemish cities of Mechelen and Nijmegen, where they held several properties, namely, in the village of de Zellaer. During the 17th Century, in the rouse of the religious wars that ravaged the northern and central Europe at that time, the van Zellers migrated to Spain and Portugal, countries where they came to settle.
Their connection to the wine business dates back from the beginning of the 17th Century, according to the wine records Livros da Imposição (1620-1640) that refer to the trader Jorge Fernandes and his son-in-law Francisco da Silva Moura, ancestors of the Portuguese legacy of the family, as the biggest wine traders registered at that time. These ancestors of the van Zeller family are the first known members of an uninterrupted series of 14 consecutive generations devoted, to present days, to Port and Douro wine trade, an unprecedented fact in any other Portuguese family "dynasty” involved in the wine business.
