INSPIRED ON THE PAST TO BUILD THE FUTURE
CLASSICS
Made with traditional grape varieties, these are true Alentejo wines — yet with remarkable freshness and balance.
EXCLUSIVES
Our flagship wines. These are structured, austere, mysterious, and deep — with great ageing potential.
EXPERIENCES
In winemaking, you only get one try per year. The need to learn more, and faster, led Luís Louro and Inês Capão to challenge each other in 2015, after over a decade working as a team. Each had to create a wine independently. Plot, soil type, varieties, vinification, and ageing are the available tools. When successful, the wines are bottled and released.
LOU from LOUro, CA from CApão.
TERRITORY
Wines that express, in pure form, the origin — whether it be the grape variety or the specific plot.
A great wine rarely happens by chance — it starts with the best grapes. At Adega Monte Branco, every vineyard plot is unique and managed individually to maximize its full potential.
The choice of varieties and rootstocks is based on soil type and sun exposure. There’s a constant goal of extending the vine cycle — delaying the final ripening stage beyond the hottest period, which naturally leads to more balanced grapes and wines with greater natural acidity and balance.
OUR GRAPE VARIETIES
SPECIAL EDITIONS
Commemorative editions, always elegant wines with excellent ageing potential. Wines that challenge the Alentejo to go further.
Versatile, popular from north to south of Portugal. Produces vibrant fresh wines of good acidity and minerality, with ageing potential.
Versatile, present from north to south of Portugal. It produces vibrant wines, with good acidity and mineral profile, fresh and with aging potential.
Same as Sercial from Madeira Island. Quite difficult to handle in the vineyards, produces very acid, low pH and quite structured whites. Very important to bring natural acidity up on younger blends or to give a more complex long ageing potential on top whites.
Typical of Carcavelos wines, despite referring to its presence in Alentejo 100 years ago. Very complex mineral aromas. Adds complexity and character to the wines.
Typical Douro grape variety, with a long cycle and slow maturation, adapted to hot climates. Produces wines with a good floral and balanced character.
The most widely planted white grape variety in Alentejo. It produces aromas of stone fruits and wines with a strong identity.
WHITE GRAPE VARIETIES
RED GRAPE VARIETIES
OUR GRAPE VARIETIES
Rooted in Alentejo, it is one of the rare red varieties in the world. It provides structure, firmness, tannins... and color, lots of color!
The Iberian grape variety par excellence. It thrives in hot, dry climates, in wines that combine power and structure, fruit and spices.
Once the most planted red grape varietal in the region, long cycle varietal well adapted to climate. produces elegant and structured long ageing potential wines.
Typical from Vinho Verde and Douro region, quite new in the Alentejo. Latest grape to ripe, extremely acidic. Like using a little pepper in the kitchen… a small touch and makes all the difference.
Late maturation, very high acid varietal. Produces concentrated strong color and at the same time balanced wines, extremely important to bring freshness up in a hot climate region.
Difficult and temperamental, it is one of the best adapted to the hot dryness of the Alentejo. It gives elegance and freshness to wines.
The flagship grape variety of Portugal, always intense and explosive. Perfect for blends, it gives an unmistakable aromatic magnificence.
