THE ESTATE
An estate with 25 ha vineyards, olive groves, orchards, cork trees, horses, foxes, wild boars, birds... and amazing sunsets.
A FEW FACTS
- AZAMOR is a family-owned and run wine estate located in Vila Viçosa. It is the only winery in the region;
- All wines are made from the estate’s grapes;
- We use Portuguese and French varieties: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Trincadeira, Alicante Bouschet. Merlot, Syrah, Petit Verdot;
- We are producers of red wine only;
- We are working towards a sustainability certification;
- We export 85% of our production;
- We also produce a high-quality extra-virgin olive oil.
PRODUCTION
- We believe in minimal intervention in the vineyard and the winery;
- We monitor and try to reduce the use of our resources (water, electricity, herbicides and pesticides, glass, cardboards etc..), re-use if possible, as well as the installation of solar energy and other renewable energies;
- As a result, vineyards do not appear as manicured but have a healthy environment and micro-climate;
- To ensure excellent quality grapes, AZAMOR has a maximum production of 5 tons per hectare. We keep our sulpher counts low during the fermentation process ensuring a low total sulpher level in the bottle;
- We encourage indigenous (wild) fermentation from the grapes picked at our estate to produce our own yeast culture to re-apply to further fermentations.
OUR COLLECTION
Keep scrolling down to find all the details about our distinctive wines
AZAMOR 2021
THE WINE
AZAMOR 2021 is a specially crafted blend of classic French and Portuguese grape varieties. Each selected parcel of fruit is fermented and matured separately with the final blend created just prior to bottling.
Aging — Azamor 2021 wine was aged for 7 months in our cellars, around 20% was aged in used French and American Oak Barrels. And blended seven months prior to bottling in November 2023. The wine was launched immediately.
16% Alicante Bouschet
12% Touriga Nacional
5g/l Total Acidity
4% residual sugar
AZAMOR
Selected Vines 2018
THE WINE
AZAMOR Selected Vines 2018 is a specially crafted blend of grapes from the premium parcels of the Azamor Vineyard. Each selected parcel is fermented separately and aged in French and American barrels. The final blend is created just prior to bottling.
We pruned for "dry" vineyard to ensure optimum quality and quantity of grapes because of our limited
water resources The growing season was mild and rainfall normal. Everything was going famously. Then,
between the 3-6th August, we had exceptionally high temperatures of 45-48ºC. Any exposed fruit was burnt and because the vines stalled photosynthesis, maturations over the vineyard were inconsistent.
In terms of quality the vintage was surprisingly good.
Aging — Azamor Selected Vines 2018 was aged for 12 months in our cellars, in 15% French and 15% American Oak Barrels, and the remainder in stainless steel tanks. Blending took place in November 2021 and the blended wine was bottled in December 2021. Released in March 2022.
40% Touriga Franca
20% Alicante Bouschet
4.7g/dm3 Total Acidity
3,62 pH
AZAMOR Petit Verdot
2021 Lagar
THE WINE
This new launch Petit Verdot 2021 is the first release of our long-awaited Petit Verdot Lagar 2021. It started because my son Sebastian brought some friends to the winery in 2021 to foot tread our grapes, there was quite a party and lunch was at 5pm!
Having started this process, this wine was one of our best wines of the 2021 vintage, so we decided to bottle it as a single wine. The Petit Verdot in the Azamor vineyard has an exceptional grape with a complexity and elegance second to none. It is hand selected and picked to ensure maximum fruit maturity and balance. The grapes we foot tread are added to the lagar in small boxes. When the grapes are at the desired quantity, we foot tread the grapes in our “lagar” and they are slowly crushed and the juice pours out. Regular daily foot treading for 4 days allows the fermentation to be well underway, before the wine is transferred into a stainless-steel tank, to finish fermentation.
almost none until November. There was sufficient water available to water until the harvest took place
in August. The summer temperatures were between 34-38C and the quality of grapes excellent.
Harvest started on the 23rd of August and finished on the 14th September. It was an excellent vintage for
Azamor.
fermentation in stainless steel tanks. After the malolactic fermentation, the wine was put in barrels.
Aging — The Petit Verdot wine was aged for 12 months in our cellars, 25% in new & second year French Saury Barrels. The remainder was aged in stainless steel tanks.
4.8g/l Total Acidity
3.71pH
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Petit Verdot 2021
THE WINE
This 2021 release marks the ninth vintage of Azamor’s Petit Verdot. In its traditional home in France, Petit Verdot is the least known and grown of the Bordeaux varieties, where it traditionally makes up to 5% of blends. At Azamor the vineyard site was hand selected to ensure maximum fruit maturity and balance, of this late ripening variety.
little rain until November. There was sufficient water available to water until the harvest took place in
August. The temperatures were consitent at between 34-38°C and the quality of the grapes were
excellent. Harvest started on the 23rd August and finished on the 14th September.
Aging — The Petit Verdot wine was aged for 12 months in our cellars, 25% in new & second year French Saury Barrels. The remainder was aged in stainless steel tanks. The wine was blended six months before bottling in November 2023, before being released in January 2024
4.8g/l Total Acidity
3.74 pH
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Syrah 2021
THE WINE
After making exceptional Syrah for many years and blending it with other varieties. We always tought that our next single variety should be syrah, but it has taken us several years to take the plunge. The Chapoutier clone grapes planted in our vineyard are small, of outstanding complexity, and are absolutely divine. So here it is our first Syrah single variety.
no rainfall until November. There was sufficient water available for trans-evaporation needs until the
harvest took place in August. The summer temperatures were between 34-38°C and the quality of grapes
excellent.
Harvest started on the 23rd of August and finished on the 14th September. It was an excellent vintage for Azamor.
Aging — The Syrah 2021 was aged for 12 months in our cellars, 25% in new & second year French and American oak Barrels. The remainder was aged in stainless steel tanks. The wine was blended 6 months before botting in late November 2023, and the wine released in January 2024.
5,3g/l Total Acidity
3.55 pH
ICON
D’AZAMOR 2015
THE WINE
2015 marks the third vintage of Icon D´Azamor. Produced only in exceptional years, ICON D’AZAMOR 2015 is beautifully and elegant wine. It is completely balanced between aroma, intense well-rounded taste, acidity, tannins and persistence. Absolutely seamless.
was picked on the 14th September. Benefitting from the dry pruning, the Alicante Boushet produced less
quantity, but the quality was exceptional.
The 2015 growing season was marked by a shortage of rainfall. The last rainfall before vintage being in
May. However, the weather throughout the growing season was relatively mild and consistent
maturation quality ensured. where grape maturation stalled, and then all the grapes matured quickly.
Aging — After the natural malolactic fermentation was finished, the wine was aged in 500 litre French oak barrels for 24 months. The wine was bottle aged for 14 months before being released.
Blending & Release — Blending took place in July 2019 and the wine was released in November 2020.
5,3gm/l Total Acidity
3,63 pH
0.3 g/dm Total sugars
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