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Casa Ermelinda Vinhas de Canivães Douro

Name: Casa Ermelinda Vinhas de Canivães Douro
Brand: Casa Ermelinda
SKU: 5600712449255
Price: 14.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Producer Casa Ermelinda

Country Portugal

Region Setúbal Peninsula

ABV 13%

Tasting Notes

Blackberry, Plum, Cocoa and Spice

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Douro Medium Body Portugal Red Wine Touriga Nacional Vegan

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More About Casa Ermelinda Vinhas de Canivães Douro

A generous, fruit-forward Douro red from Quinta de Canivães in the Douro Superior, made from classic Portuguese varieties Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Tinta Roriz, the same grapes that underpin great Port wines.

Bright and approachable, it shows ripe cherry, raspberry and plum with hints of spice, cocoa and schist-driven minerality. The palate is medium-bodied and smooth, balancing juicy fruit with soft tannins and a fresh, lightly savoury finish.

Meet the Producer, Casa Ermelinda

Casa Ermelinda

Style: Winery

Casa Ermelinda Freitas is one of Portugal’s great success stories in the “why is this wine still so affordable?” category. Based in the Setúbal Peninsula south of Lisbon, the winery has spent generations producing rich, characterful Portuguese wines packed with local identity, sunshine and deeply dangerous drinkability.

The estate dates back to the 1920s, but it was Leonor Freitas who really transformed the winery into an internationally recognised name while still keeping everything firmly family-run. Which is impressive considering Portuguese wine often feels like the rest of Europe’s best kept secret despite consistently overdelivering for the price.

The wines focus heavily on native Portuguese grapes like Castelão, Touriga Nacional, Trincadeira and Fernão Pires, alongside a few international varieties where they make sense. The reds especially tend to be wonderfully generous. Dark fruit, spice, soft tannins and lots of Mediterranean warmth, but usually with enough freshness underneath to stop things becoming sleepy and overcooked.

What makes Casa Ermelinda especially enjoyable is the balance between approachability and regional character. These wines are easy to love immediately, but still feel unmistakably Portuguese rather than polished into generic international supermarket wine. The whole range carries this lovely relaxed confidence, like the winery knows perfectly well the wines are good and doesn’t feel any need to shout about it.

There’s also something deeply satisfying about Portuguese wine culture in general. While other regions sometimes disappear into prestige pricing and collector obsession, Portugal still seems mainly interested in producing genuinely enjoyable wine for actual drinking. Casa Ermelinda fits beautifully into that tradition.