Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo

The estate has been documented since the first demarcation of the Douro region in 1756; the historic cellar dates from 1764. The Quinta covers more than 120 hectares with 41 vineyard parcels, around 85 hectares of which lie within the UNESCO World Heritage site. The vines, an average of 45 years old, grow on steep schist sites. The estate uses integrated viticulture, harvests by hand, uses natural fertilisers and continues to work some of the old terraces with horse and plough. The cellar combines historic granite presses with modern concrete tanks.