Red grape
Pre-phylloxera vines in Atlantic sand.
Aromas
Sour cherry, sea salt, iodine, earth
Structure
Austere tannins, high acidity, light body
Ageing
Decades; young wines are fierce
Ramisco grows ungrafted in the dunes of Colares, its roots reaching clay beneath metres of sand where phylloxera could never follow. Only a few hectares survive, making it one of Europe's rarest red wines.
Colares DOC reds, long-aged in old wood.
Grilled fish, octopus, roasted pork.
Lisboa & Colares
Almoçageme, Colares · Est. 1808
A tiled 19th-century adega holding ungrafted Ramisco on Atlantic sand — some of Europe's rarest wines.
Lisboa & Colares
Banzão, Colares · Est. 1931
Portugal's oldest cooperative — a cathedral-like nave of giant mahogany vats, keeper of Colares' heritage.