AdegaMãe celebrates the 10 years of Dory Red

Dory Tinto, the first wine from AdegaMãe, celebrates its tenth edition, with the 2019 harvest. Now available on the market, it continues the journey of what has become the most symbolic house brand, ‘Dory’, “a tribute to former fishermen Portuguese of cod fish”, as the company informs. The new Dory Red 2019 adds the versatility and gastronomic potential already existing to the introduction of the Pinot Noir grape variety, “which gives it an even more elegant profile”. “The introduction of this grape variety is still symbolic: if the first Dory of 2010 was made exclusively with the grapes then existing on the farm that is today AdegaMãe, this 2019 harvest is the paradigm of the entire evolutionary journey experienced”, the company points out.
Today, the best red grapes of the Touriga Nacional, Aragonez and Syrah varieties arrive from the most continental terroir of Alenquer. From the Atlantic AdegaMãe vineyard, meanwhile converted almost exclusively to the production of the noblest white wines in the house, Pinot Noir appears, which completes the batch of the new Dory Red 2019.
“We removed the Merlot variety from the blend. The new Pinot Noir vineyard at AdegaMãe, thanks to the cooler climate, is proving to be an excellent source of raw material for some of the new wines we are developing. The grape variety has an extremely interesting character in this Atlantic terroir and clearly imposed itself for what is our interpretation of a Lisbon red wine: elegant, fresh and simple, very versatile and pleasant. Basically, this is our Dory Red”, explains the oenologist, Diogo Lopes.