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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
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Superb black variety is at the heart of Port and Duoro's best table wines.
Touriga Nacional is the most revered Port grape variety. Small berried, tannic and with a concentrated flavour. It also is a required minimum constituent (20%) of Dão.
Touriga Nacional (red)
Although not widely known as a varietal, this rare, small-berried, dark-skinned Portuguese variety is nevertheless the highest quality grape that goes into the Douro Valley melting pot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Nacional, ...
 See also: Touriga, Grape, Wine, Region, Red
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