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Tinta Roriz is the (Northern) Portuguese name for Tempranillo or Aragones as it is called in Southern Portugal! Tinta Roriz is one of the constituents of the blend of grape varieties that make port.
Among the best are Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Cão. There are nine types of Port that vary in quality, complexity and oak aging.
White Ports are generally produced with the grapes Códega, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina, Rabigato and Viosinho, whereas for red Ports are used the grapes Touriga Nacional, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz (known in Spain as Tempranillo), Tinto Cã ...
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 blend of the Port varieties Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional, this is an inky blackish-purple wine with a clear red-violet edge.
Red Port can be made from many types of grapes (castas), but the main ones are Tinta Barroca, Tinta Cão, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Touriga Francesa, and Touriga Nacional.
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).
There are basically five red varietals that can be included in Port: Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Touriga Francesa, and Touriga Nacional. Of these, Touriga Nacional is big, flavorful, and the most important in the lot.
It is mainly blended with Touriga Francesa, Tinto Cão, Tinta Barroca and Tinta Roriz. Still in Portugal, it' also one of the major grapes of Dão and is grown in Australia, where it's known simply as Touriga.
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ALFROCHEIRO: Variety used for red wine production in the Dão DOC, Beiras region of Portugal. Can be found in blends also containing Jaen, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional and Tinta Pinheira.
Tempranillo is a primary red wine grape for much of Spain, especially those from the Ribera del Duero and the Rioja Alta. It is also a key blending varietal in Port and known by the name of tinta roriz in Portugal's Douro Valley.
Instead they focus on local Iberian varietals, the most common of which are Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (or Aragonês, this is identical to the Tempranillo of Spain), Trincadeira (or Tinta Amarela), and Perriquita.
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: Grape, Red, Portugal, Wine, Blend
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