ODE Winery Unveils New 100% Alvarinho Wine

Vila Chã de Ourique, Santarém, Portugal – The winery, located in Vila Chã de Ourique, has just launched its newest wine – the Ode Alvarinho.

This excellent grape variety from the Vinho Verde region has adapted exceptionally well to the Tejo climate, resulting in a highly gastronomic wine with intense citrus and fruity aromas.

ODE Winery, in Vila Chã de Ourique, has expanded its portfolio to 12 references with the release of the new Ode Alvarinho. This is a gastronomic wine with citrus and fruity aromas such as pineapple, lychee, and lime, supported by notes of lemon thyme and green herbs. An excellent choice to accompany seafood, it also harmonizes well with more elaborate dishes from Southeast Asian, Japanese, and Indian cuisine due to its structure and perfect balance of acidity.

“We are very happy to present Ode Alvarinho, a wine that gave us great pleasure to produce. When we started the Ode wine project, we detected some vines of this variety that were weakened and needed to be recovered. In the first year, we sought to treat and monitor their evolution, which was remarkable, allowing us to produce the 1,500 bottles we now present, of exceptional quality and of which we are very proud. We hope that the vines continue to recover and that we can continue to produce more and better Alvarinho in the Tejo,” says Maria Vicente, winemaker at ODE Winery.

The grapes for Ode Alvarinho were selected and hand-harvested, then fermented and aged for 5 months in 500-liter Hungarian oak barrels. The wine has excellent aging potential in the bottle, continuing to gain complexity over the next 10 years. It has already been awarded three gold medals internationally at the Portugal Wine Trophy 2024, Vinarium International Wine Contest, and Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, respectively, and a silver medal at the International Wine Challenge. It has also been recognized in the domestic market, winning Grand Gold at the Cidades do Vinho Competition and Gold at the XIV Vinhos do Tejo Competition.

To mark the launch of this new wine on August 1st, Alvarinho Day, ODE Winery will be hosting a special presentation at restaurants and bars in various locations across the country, giving customers the opportunity to taste this wine firsthand. There will be several locations participating in this initiative*, from north to south of the country, such as the restaurants Hikadashi (Lisboa), Boubou’s (Lisboa), O Balcão (Santarém), o Pátio da Graça (Santarém), Euskalduna (Porto), MISTU (Porto), or the bars Black Sheep (Lisboa), Imprensa (Lisboa) and Bago Wine Bar (Faro).

Ode Alvarinho has a recommended price of €31 and joins the 11 existing ODE references: the white wines Ode Semillon, Ode Viognier, Ode Fernão Pires, Ode Arinto, Ode Enóloga Arinto Fernão Pires; the Ode Rosé and the red wines Ode Touriga Nacional, Ode Quarteto, Ode Lagares Touriga Nacional, Ode Amphora Alicante Bouschet, Ode Única Touriga Nacional. It can be purchased online at Shop – ODE Winery, or at the Cellar Door restaurant, located at the winery, and soon in wine shops across the country.