We strive to ensure that our wines are the best expression of our vineyards
Thanks to the advanced age of its vineyards, all wines from Quinta do Olival Velho are made with minimal intervention, letting nature and the terroir reveal themselves fully
The Wines
WinesTrufa 2020
In 2016, the first wine from Quinta do Olival Velho was produced – “Trufa”.
This wine is produced with grapes from a single plot of the estate’s vineyard, the “Vinha do Olival”. This plot, located at an altitude of 350 metres with a northern exposure, has specific characteristics that allow it to create red wines with great identity. “Trufa” is a very complex wine, with excellent structure and concentration. It has lively, firm tannins of great elegance and an enormous freshness that the altitude and northern exposure of the vineyard give it.
- Tasting Notes
- Lively, firm tannins of great elegance and an enormous freshness
- Pairing
- Game, stews, aged meats and cheese.
- Years
- 2016, 2017 and 2019.
WinesTrufa Negra 2021
A second wine was launched in 2017 – “Black Trufa”, combining grapes from Quinta do Olival Velho with another, acquired by the company “Quinta do Olival Velho, Lda”, located at the mouth of the Távora River. This second vineyard is located, although it also faces north, in a lower altitude area and is a younger vineyard, around 30 years old.
Despite this difference, this wine remains in the same vein as “Trufa”, concentrated, sweet, fresh and very balanced.
- Tasting Notes
- Concentrated, sweet, fresh and very balanced.
- Years
- 2017, 2018 and 2019.
WinesTrufa Garrafeira 2017
Trufa Garrafeira is a special edition of just 603 numbered Magnum bottles.
The fruit of an exceptional vineyard and year, Trufa Garrafeira 2017 was fermented in granite vats with foot treading, and after aging for 18 months in 100% new French oak barrels, it was bottled and carefully stored in the bottle under ideal temperature and humidity conditions for around 50 months.
Trufa Garrafeira reveals the complexity, harmony and elegance so characteristic of the vineyard plot and the very special terroir from which it originates. Aging in barrels and then storing in the bottle made this wine even more elegant with its satiny tannins, mineral notes and a complex, persistent, very elegant and fresh finish.
- Tasting Notes
- Satiiny tannins, mineral notes and a complex, persistent, very elegant and fresh finish.
- Pairing
- Red meat, aged meat and cheese dishes.
