Our Wines
The Castelo Branco family made a huge effort to reconvert the agricultural activity in order to replace traditional rainfed cereal farming with more competitive crops such as vineyards and olive groves in the current international context.
The vineyard planting began in 1995, following a careful selection of soils, sun exposure, and grape varieties.
The following red grape varieties were selected: Aragonez, Touriga Nacional, Alicante Bouschet, Syrah, Petit Verdot, and Malbec. White varieties include: Antão Vaz, Arinto, Verdelho, Viognier, and Roupeiro.
The entire vineyard area is irrigated using a drip irrigation system, allowing for perfect balance in grape ripening, even during long, very dry and hot summers. Vineyard management follows an integrated production system. Harvesting takes place at night, ensuring that the grapes are picked under optimal conditions, at significantly lower temperatures than during the day, when they can reach 35 to 40°C. The almost exclusively mechanical harvest allows the grapes to be collected quickly at the optimal point, as determined by ripeness control analyses. The agricultural company began its winemaking activity in 2002 with the construction of the first phase of the winery. The winery is integrated into the centuries-old architecture of Monte Paço do Conde, the estate’s headquarters, located in the parish of Baleizão, in the municipality of Beja.
It currently vinifies the production of around 230 hectares of vines, all of which belong to the Castelo Branco family thus guaranteeing total and common control over all stages of the production process.
With a capacity of 2 500 000 liters the modern cellar combines tradition with advanced technology, which allows perfect winemaking capable of showing the excellent quality of the grapes. Equipped with an operating system that maximizes the smoothness of grapes transportation, wine masses and wines, ensuring that the entire winemaking process runs gently and the wine does not suffer sudden movements. The small-capacity fermentation vats allow the separate vinification of several varieties per vineyard plot.
With its modern and attractive lines, the wine cellar underwent a technological and wine making technique renovation to cope with the increase amount of grapes produced. High quality wines are produced and have been hugely successful not only in Portugal but in several countries.
And if the cellar is technically sophisticated, it is no less aesthetically. Vaulted ceilings and arcades give the place a charming architectural beauty.
Paço do Conde
Each bottle of this wine reveals the harmony of a privileged location in the south of Portugal, where, for more than three thousand years, mankind has cultivated excellence. From the vineyards of Herdade Paço do Conde, located in an Alentejo microclimate ideal for white wines, we selected the highest-quality grapes of the Antão Vaz variety. Full-bodied on the palate, with smooth tannins and a long, persistent finish.
Herdade das Albernoas
Encosta do Guadiana
Monte do Paço
Born in the Alentejo plains, this young wine is made for lovers of life’s true pleasures. Crafted from Alicante Bouschet, Trincadeira, and Syrah. Ruby in colour, with red fruit aromas and a smooth, velvety palate.
Primevo
Primevo is a reference to the earliest times of the world and symbolises the living history of southern Portugal. Primevo wine tells a story of dedication, precision, innovation, experience, and passion. Crafted from Aragonez, Trincadeira, and Castelão.
Vilares
Ribeira do Guadiana
Touriga Nacional and Syrah were the varieties selected for this wine which benefit from natural conditions for a balanced maturation and a strong personality. With an intense ruby color it tastes like wild berries and has an elegant complex structure.
3 Herdades
For lovers of the true pleasures of life, in the Alentejo plains, a young wine is born made with Aragonez, Trincadeira and Castelão, with a ruby color, aromas of red fruits, smooth and soft in the mouth.
