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Álvaro Castro Dão Primus

Dão, Portugal
Castro's flagship Dão red from old-vine Touriga Nacional on granite — a wine of remarkable elegance and mineral precision, aging like a great Burgundy with rose petal, tobacco, iron mineral, and fine tannin. One of Portugal's most distinctive and undervalued red wines.
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Dão's regional roast kid with the plateau's finest red wine — a Portuguese highland pairing of great authenticity.
classic main
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Portugal's greatest mountain cheese — the runny Serra da Estrela with Dão's finest wine is a highland pairing.
classic cheese
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Granite plateau mushrooms and local mountain cheese with granite-grown Touriga Nacional — pure Dão terroir.
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Central Portugal's iconic suckling pig from neighboring Bairrada with Dão's finest red — regional affinity.
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