M.O.B. - Dâo  - 2011

M.O.B.

Dâo 2011

MOB, short for Moreira, Olazabal and Borges, is the Dão joint venture from Poeira’s Jorge Moreira, Quinta do Vale Meão’s Francisco Olazabal and Wine & Soul’s Jorge Serôdio Borges. MOB already registered in the US! Alves de Sousa invited them. Some Dão producers accused them of making chocolate bombs but in fact they went for cool vineyards and seek freshness and lightness. They love the more transparent Dãos. They’ve taken out a 15-year lease, and have 20-year-old Touriga Nacional, Jaen, Baga and Alfrocheiro vines. Wine based on acid not tannins. The three guys love to get together and gossip and taste so long that they forget to decide what they meant to!
Light and fresh and zesty. Damson fruit. Certainly lots of acidity but fresh and fine. Clean and fun.

October 2013


About Jancis Robinson

Described by Decanter magazine as 'the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world', Jancis writes daily for JancisRobinson.com (voted first-ever Wine Website of the Year in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2010), weekly for The Financial Times, and bi-monthly for a column that is syndicated around the world. She is also editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, co-author with Hugh Johnson ofThe World Atlas of Wine and co-author of Wine Grapes - A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours, each of these books recognised as a standard reference worldwide.