Casa Do Joa

Casa DO JOA rises in the village of Parada, 20 km from Bragança. Typical northern village whose name is etymologically associated with historical and geographical circumstances as a “stop by” place. Perhaps that’s why it is a village where time looks like it passes so slowly and without rushing to go anywhere. By rehabilitating an old haystack house and preserving its original stone walls, was born the new wine cellar that holds this dreaming project. Despite being a new structure, it kept harmony without distorting its landscape. It’s on this land that JOA (Jorge Ortega Afonso) has his origins and it made complete sense to call “Casa” to the place where the soul feels happy. Parada is a high land, it’s around 800m high. In other people’s time, it was rich in tin and wolfram land. In this people’s time, it is rich in chestnut trees, olive trees and vines. These ones especially, are pure, in free standing regime and resistant to phylloxera, they are over 130 years old and have over 20 different types of grape varieties. It’s the climate that defines the characteristics of the wine and in order to respect the harvest year, no corrections are made, just monitorization, that starts in the treatment and careful vine watch until the bottle process. The wine is left in used barrels made of french and portuguese oak e takes advantage of the hard winters from the region to precipitate the deposits, avoiding the filter process. After this rest time, the wine is bottle in the in the peerless, robust and elegant bottles. Here the wine is kept by the best cork that can be offered and so that it can remain kept in everyone’s wine cellar for when it his time to open, may it be a memorable moment.