Description
M.O.B., located in the Serra d’Estrela district of eastern Dão, is a daring joint venture named for the three talented winemakers behind it all: Jorge Moreira of Poeira, Francisco Olazabal from Quinta do Vale Meão, and Jorge Serôdio Borges of Quinta do Passadouro and Wine & Soul. The close-knit trio may have deep roots in the neighboring Douro Valley, but they unite under one desire: to represent the Dão in the truest form. While some winemakers in this region are mimicking a bolder Douro style, M.O.B. aims to craft wines that are intense, yet elegant: a style emblematic of the land.
Wine Production
This Senna is fermented in small stainless steel tanks and oak barrels (30% new and the remaining used). It is aged for eight months with slight battonage.
Tasting Notes
A beautiful golden color, with a nose full of aroma, with notes of gunpowder and minerality to arise between the fruity and floral. In the mouth, it is very rich, with great texture and very lively acidity. A white with a strong personality to go discovering in the coming years.
Food Pairing
This wine pairs perfectly with grilled fish dishes, shellfish, as well as soft and creamy sheep and goat cheeses.
Professional Review
94 points Wine Advocate
“I tasted a handful of vintages of the Vinha Senna Branco, their original vineyard from the 1990s. The youngest of the vintages is the 2024 Senna Branco, a characterful white produced with around 80% Encruzado and the rest Bical grapes in a reductive way. It fermented in stainless steel and barriques, 30% of them new, and aged in 500-liter French oak barrels for seven months. This is a cool place, where the project originated. The wine is very obviously young and undeveloped, still closed and austere. It has contained ripeness, with 13% alcohol, and very good acidity. If this evolves in the way of the 2021. It’s going to be a fantastic bottle of white Dao.” (01/2026)
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