Portugal
The country of great Port and Madeira, excellent and magnificent fortified wines, is capable of offering an interesting production of white and red table wines as well ...
Portugal travel/wine reports
- Lisbon (Saturday, Dec. 10) Arrival in Lisbon, seeing the sights, pastry in Belem and dinner at a neighborhood eatery in the Bairro Alta.
Portugal
See my Portuguese wine guide.
Potential Alcohol
The potential alcohol depends on the must weight.
Portugal
The Portuguese are thirsty people, ranking fifth in terms of per capita consumption. This creates a strong domestic demand for the fascinating wines that Portugal produces.
Portugal
Muscat is widely grown in Portugal, where the grape and the wines produced from it are known as Moscatel or Muscatel. Among these wines is Moscatel de Setubal, a sweet fortified wine from the Setúbal Peninsula in Portugal.
Portugal has 1/3 of the world's cork forests and supplies 85-90% of the cork used in the U.S.
PORTUGAL MALBEC: (See Tinta Amarela below).
PORTUGIESER: Also known as the Blau Portugieser in Austria where it is grown and used to make a somewhat bland, dark red, medium-bodied wine.
In Portugal Verdelho is used to produce fortified wines and it is a major component in the famous wines of Madeira. In France a dry white wine is produced.
Oporto
Portugal's sweet dessert wines (ports), named after Oporto, Portugal's second largest city, on the Douro river.
Oregano
See Marjoram.
In Portugal, the abbreviation for Denominacao de Origen Controlada, the official category for the country's highest wine category, whose defining factors are regulated by law.
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Baga is Portugal's most planted grape variety also known as Tinta Bairrada, probably because its predominant plantings are to be found in the Bairrada region of Portugal.
The town in Portugal where all the Port "lodges" (warehouses) are located. It is across the Douro river from the city of Oporto, because of the danger of fire.
Vin (van)
French for "wine." ...
True Port from Portugal is a tightly controlled, regulated (by the Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto), and regarded wine. Port wine is a sweet Portuguese fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal.
Port is from Portugal. Port-style wines (which can be absolutely delicious in their own right) are from somewhere that isn't Portugal. Port comes in several different styles: ...
Tawny Port: (Portugal) basic light port. True wood-aged tawny ports are either mrketed as colheitas or as ports with an indication of age.
Tears: Trace of oiliness left in the glass by a wine rich in alcohol, sugars and glycerin.
In Portugal, DOC is also an abbreviation for the highest official wine category, Denominacao de Origem Controlada. In Spain it's Denominación de Origen (DO). docePortuguese for sweet.
Port is a magnificent rich and long-lived dessert wine made from vines planted in along the craggy slopes and steep terraces of the Douro River Valley of Portugal.
port: A fortified wine originating from the Douro Valley in northern Portugal. Other countries such as Australia have a long history of producing wines of a similar style. Three major styles of port exist - ruby, tawny and vintage.
The famous fortified sweet wine from the Duoro Valley of Portugal. Port, a blended wine, is made with up to five red grape varieties: Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Touriga Francesa, and the most highly regarded: Touriga Nacional.
A fortified wine from the island of Madeira which belongs to Portugal but is located off the west African coast.
Port: Port is a superb, sweetish dessert wine, a fortified red wine, the name coming from Oporto on the Douro River in Portugal. Port is an after-dinner drink of quite high alcohol content (17 to 20 per cent).
The winter was unseasonably dry throughout Portugal and the drought continued through until June when a few days of rain proved to be very beneficial. Fortunately the flowering was early and therefore not affected.
Usually, I go for the pink wines from Spain, Portugal, and France, but every once in a while spot an example from California that appears interesting.
A fortified wine of Portugal, also known as Oporto. Very richly flavored and sweet.
The Verdelho variety has been cultivated in Portugal since at least the 1400s. It is one of the grapes long used in the making of Madeira. There is also a purple variety, Verdelho Tinto, planted on that island.
Port originated in Portugal, but it would have remained a local drink without the 17th century wars between France and England.
Port is a dessert wine from Portugal, so it's to be drunken AFTER dinner. There are different styles of Port, and I've suggested here a Ruby style. This is a bit more sweet and the style name connotes the color as well.
Tempranillo achieves a different, bolder expression in Ribera del Duero, a region in north-central Spain along the Duero River (which flows into Portugal as the Douro, where tempranillo, as tinta roriz, is one of the major grapes of port).
People who only associate Portugal with Port will be amazed. These are often made from the same grapes as Port and you can sometimes taste the relationship, with flavors of blackberries, raspberries, pepper, herbs and even some chocolate fondue.
Oporto - The second largest city in Portugal behind Lisbon. Oporto is the traditional home of the Port trade.
Denominação de Origem Controlada (Portugal)
This is a high quality level for Portuguese wines whose name, origin, grape varieties, and other defining factors are regulated by law.
[22][23] Portugal has something similar and, in fact, pioneered this technique back in 1756 with a royal charter which created the "Demarcated Douro Region" and regulated wine production and trade.
Appellations are used to identify most of the wines of the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal. Often laws that govern the type of grapes used, yields, and other aspects of winemaking are based on the appellation system.
Douro: A river in Portugal as well as the wine region famous for producing Port wines.
Dry: A wine containing no more than 0.2 percent unfermented sugar.
Douro (doo-roe)
river in northern Portugal that flows through the Port district
Drainage
good vine dies quickly if water allowed to stand on roots (limestone, gravel, chalk/good drainage) ...
Setuval: Also known as Setubal. A fortified Muscat wine from Portugal. It is typically brown in color, like a sherry or tawny port.
Shrub: A drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and a liquor such as rum or brandy.
DOC: These initials stand for Demoninação de Origem Controlada in Portugal and Denominazione di Origine Controllata in Italy and refer to the controlled appellation wines which are regarded as quality wines by European wine law.
Douro: A major river in northern Portugal flowing westward into the Atlantic Ocean at the port of Oporto. It passes through one of the most picturesque and dramatic river valleys in the world, which is the region of Port wines.
Geography
France, Portugal, Israel, Tunisia, New World, especially the Hunter Valley region of Australia.
Port: A sweet, fortified wine made in the Douro Valley of Portugal and aged in the coastal town of Vila Nova de Gaia; variations include Vintage, Tawny, Late Bottled Vintage, Ruby, White and others.
In Portugal the grape is known as the (Tinta) Roriz. Large acreages are grown in Argentina. Also found in the Central Valley of California. Makes a grapejuice much favored by home-winemakers that is sold under the "Valdepenas" name in N. America.
Maderized: a term derived from "Madeira' a type of fortified wine from Portugal, produced by a combination of aging and heating. The color of a maderized white wine is yellow-brown to golden-brown, and it smells and tastes oxidized.
50% of all corks are made from trees in Portugal. The trees are called Cork Trees.
And here's one last review of a pet peeve.
Vinho verde - An effervescent white wine produced in Portugal.
Viniculture - The art and science of making wine. Also called enology (or oenology). Not to be confused with viticulture.
Old World. Refers to the winemaking countries of Western Europe including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Germany.
Oxidized. having been spoiled by exposure to too much air. The resulting wine tastes old, flat, and tired.
In Europe there are, for example, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Georgia. In North Africa and the Middle East there are Algeria, Tunisia, and Israel.
Also known as, Portugeiser, Oporto, Portugaljka, Portugizac Crni.
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Area where Port is produced in the North of Portugal
Dry :
Designates white wines without sugar ...
Here you compare a grape varietal grown in the "Old World" (i.e. Europe - France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal) with the same varietal grown in the "New World" (i.e. North America, South America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia).
BAGA:
Red wine grape widely grown in Portugal. Produces acidic, tannic wines capable of aging well.
Cork
Corks are produced from the bark of cork trees, which are grown mainly in Spain and Portugal. Corks are airtight and have for years been the best way to seal wine bottles.
Outside of France it is cultivated mainly in Spain, where it is called Garnacha Tintorera, but also in Portugal, Corsica, the former Yugoslavia, Israel and North Africa. The grape is also found in Tuscany and Sardinia.
PORTO: A fortified wine from made with specific grapes from the Douoro region of Portugal. Also know as Oporto.
POTENT: Intense and powerful.
Old World wine
The Old World wines refers historically to the traditional European wine growing areas with a long tradition of viticulture such as France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and so forth.
For American wines, try South Dakota or Idaho. Internationally, try wines from Argentina, Portugal and Australia. Due to climate change, British wines are also looking up, and some taste as good as French and Italian wines.
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Just as an example of how this can be confusing, young Vintage Port, a dessert wine from Portugal, is very sweet with residual sugar, but at the same time has large amounts of tannin. Therefore, someone could potentially say these are sweet AND dry! ...
Tempranillo is known variously throughout Spain as Cencibel, Tinto del Pais, Tinto Fino, Ull de Llebre and Ojo. It's also grown along the Douro River in Portugal under the monikers Tinta Roriz (used in the making of Port) and Tinta Aragonez.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Region, Red, White
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