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Touriga Nacional
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Touriga Nacional is a variety of wine grape used predominantly to make port, and considered by many to be Portugal's finest grape.
Touriga Nacional
[Touriga]
Superb black variety is at the heart of Port and Duoro's best table wines.
Touriga Franca or Francesa is widely grown in the Douro Valley and is probably the most important constituent of Port, where it is deemed to offer a certain delicacy of fruit and aroma.
Touriga Francesa (red)
This scented red is one of the five main grape varieties grown in the Douro Valley to make port and also good in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal.
Touriga Nacional (red) ...
TOURIGA NACIONAL: Classic red wine grape used for still and Port wine production. Extensively grown in the Douro and Dão regions of Portugal, and other hot climate regions of the world.
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.
Red Ports are generally produced with grapes Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, known in Spain as Tempranillo, Tinto Cão, Touriga Francesa and Touriga Nacional.
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.
Ones that are very rare here in America, but by law are the only grapes you can use to make Port Wine in Portugal: Tinta Barroca, Tinta Cão, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Touriga Francesa, and Touriga Nacional. Whew! ...
A blend of the Port varieties Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional, this is an inky blackish-purple wine with a clear red-violet edge.
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.
There is an eclectic mix of grape varieties, and undoubtedly the leader of the pack is the Touriga Nacional. This grape is the basis for fine Ports and the red wines of the Douro, as well as having an increasing presence in many other regions.
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.
Lambrusco, Malbec, Marsala, Merlot, Montepulciano D'Abruzzo, Morellino, Moscato, Nebbiolo, Nero D'Avola, Piedmont, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Prosecco, Rioja, Ripasso, Rosé, Sangiovese, Soave, Super Tuscan (others on limited request), Syrah, Touriga ...
 See also: Touriga Nacional, Grape, Wine, Region, Red
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