Behind Adega Cartuxa [Cartuxa Winery] is a great family, the Eugénio de Almeida family. Let’s go back to 1913, the year Vasco Maria was born into one of the most influential families of the 19th century. Born in Lisbon, he soon established links with Évora and Alentejo, where the family had an extensive heritage. Vasco Maria always considered people to be the most valuable variable on the basis of which he organised all his efforts. These included revitalising winemaking and planting a vast area of olive groves just a few kilometres from Évora, which resulted in the wines and olive oils produced to this day.
Elegant delicate red wine with moderately intense cherry colour and rather thick tears. Strikingly ripe nose with black fruit and fleshy plums, white pepper and shrubbery, and an earthy undertone. Playful texture balanced and fleshy harmonious, juicy tannins, light ending in the fruity aftertaste. Lovely to enjoy on its own, freshly served at cocktail parties and receptions with cold meats, raw ham varieties, red fruit vegetables and white mould cheeses, as well as the classic spaghetti bolognaise