Symington Family Estates Altano Douro White is a high-quality Portuguese wine made from a blend of local indigenous grape varieties. With its bright, pale yellow hue, this wine offers a refreshing and complex aroma profile, featuring notes of citruses, green apples, and white flowers. On the palate, this wine is well-balanced, with a slight tanginess and subtle acidity, making it perfect for pairing with seafood, salads, and light desserts. Symington Family Estates Altano Douro White is produced using sustainable farming techniques, ensuring that the vineyard and surrounding environment are well-protected, while also producing the best possible wine quality. This wine is a perfect representation of the terroir and winemaking traditions of the Douro Valley, making it a delightful choice for wine enthusiasts looking to explore Portuguese wine.

Tasting Notes

Intense pale straw in colour, this wine reveals bright wildflower aromas as well as citrus and apple scents. The palate is lively with fresh tropical fruit flavours, which are enhanced and balanced by crisp acidity.

About the Winery

The Altano line of wines is a proud production of the Symington family, who have an experience of five generations in making Port at the Douro. Today, the family owns about 26 Quintas in the Douro Superior and the prime Cima-Corgo subregions, the largest in the Douro region. The family started producing Douro DOC wines in 1999 from their vineyards, and the wines currently enjoy a global reputation for their quality and distinctiveness.

The Symingtons strongly believe in the indigenous grape varieties of the Douro region and strive to showcase the natural fragrance, flavours and aroma of the Douro with their wines. The family follows sustainable viniculture practices with minimum interventions both in the vineyard and winery.

The family produces the Altano red wines from the grapes of their family vineyard. In contrast, Altano white wines are made from the grapes from vineyards in higher altitudes, with whose owners the Symingtons are in contact since 1900. All wines from Altano are produced from the traditional grape varieties of Portugal, conditioned by the challenging Douro Valley weather.

Some of the famous wines from the Altano line include:

Altano Red Wine: Made from the Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barroca varieties of grapes, the Altano red wine is a well-structured, elegant and generous drink with red fruit flavours, ripe tannins and spices. The wine brings a scented floral aroma and pressed wine fruit to the front, providing enthusiasts with a soft palette.

Altano White Wine: Loaded with wildflower aromas and citrus and fruit scents, the Altano white wine has a palate has tropical fruit flavours with crisp acidity. The wine is best served in summer evenings.

Altano Rewilding Edition: This unique new blend from the Altano line has well-balanced fruit with spice tannins and crisp acidity. It is enhanced by floral rock rose scents and vibrant red fruit aromas.

Altano Organic: With a long finish and a perfect balance, the Altano Organic wine is made from the organic grapes of the Symington vineyard. An excellent structure with focused fruit and ripe red fruit and floral aromas, the Altano Organic comes with an intense garnet colour, providing an aesthetic treat to the users.

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