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Viúva Gomes is focused on valuing small terroirs within the Colares Region, preserving and highlighting the suitability of each place.
From a perspective of differentiation rather than hierarchy, the producer seeks to individualize the intrinsic importance of each site. Not only to protect the characteristics and singularities of the Colares Denomination of Origin (DO), but also to demonstrate the potential of other places within the Region.
The Baeta family began its activity in 1898, in Sintra. Later acquiring Adega Viúva Gomes for aging and bottling. The company invested in recovering the brand by managing a stock of old wines and creating and launching new wine harvests in the Colares Region.
Viúva Gomes has evolved lately with work in vineyards of great importance for the preservation of a historic vineyard and with vinification without manipulation in order to respect as much as possible a terroir as special as Colares. They currently work in 6 small vineyards by the sea, in organic production mode, within the geographical limits of the Colares Region –São João das Lampas, São Martinho and Colares. Very heterogeneous parcels, with great geological, climatic and orographic variability. From vineyards in sandy soil (DOC Colares), to limestone vineyards and others with more influence from the Serra de Sintra.
This work is complemented with a historic annual quota from winegrowers associated with the Adega Regional de Colares, as well as collaborations with local winegrowers.
Viúva Gomes Viticultores are collaborative wines, made with grapes from local winegrowers and our own grapes. A “village” wine, non-DOC. Circumscribed within the geographical limits of the denomination.
Viúva Gomes Colares, wines with the Colares designation of origin. Coming from vineyards (ungrafted), in the region’s sandy soils. Indigenous grape varieties: Ramisco, in the reds and Malvasia de Colares, in the whites.
Viúva Gomes “of place and/or variety” are demonstrative of specific locations, and can be DOC and non-DOC. They are intended to be wines that, due to their unique characteristics, make sense to release separately. Wines that enhance and distinguish the place.
Viúva Gomes Pirata, experimental and pop-up. Wines that allow to explore and study places in the Region, with the aim of, in the future, finding new terroirs and their adaptabilities.
Viúva Gomes believes that the future is made with the past and today it can be proud of having well-preserved old wines up to the 1934 harvest that constitute a unique testimony to the nobility of DOC wines, produced in sandy soil with the indigenous Ramisco grape varieties and Malvasia de Colares, and at the same time, create a future for this region. Viúva Gomes’ new direction, with viticulture and winemaking work without artifice, but with precision, respecting ancestral practices, gives new life to this heritage that seemed to be on the verge of extinction.