Dão

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Predominantly granitic soils — non-humic brown litholic soils — with Mediterranean non-humic brown xisto outcrops.
• A region enclosed by four mountain ranges — Caramulo, Buçaco, Nave, and Estrela — which block Atlantic moisture and continental winds.
• The mountain ranges act as a double barrier: against humid air masses from the coast and against harsh continental winds.
• Temperate climate with cold, rainy winters and very hot, dry summers — a markedly continental diurnal and seasonal temperature range.
• A rigid hydrographic network shaped by the granitic massif; the Dão and Mondego rivers run in broad parallelism.

• The Dão region is delimited by mountain ranges — Caramulo, Buçaco, Nave, and Estrela — which act as a barrier against both humid coastal and continental winds.
• Dão vineyards are planted on predominantly granitic soils with xisto outcrops, through which the Dão and Mondego rivers flow.

• Wines produced from predominantly granitic soils (non-humic brown litholic soils) with xisto outcrops.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the the caderno de especificações.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-PT-A1534
• Official trade body site — Comissão Vitivinícola Regional do Dão