Wines made from Baga grapes of Beiras
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More informations about the variety Baga
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More informations about the region of Beiras
Beiras (Beira) is a traditional administrative region in the northern half of Portugal. It is also the name of the IGP, or Indicacoes Geograficas Protegidas, wine classification (formerly known as Vinho Regional) which covers the region as a whole. A wide range of wines are made in Beiras – red wines from the region are typically Rich, deeply colored wines made from Baga, Castelão, Rufete (Tinto Pinheira), Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Touriga Nacional, and are sometimes fortified to emulate their more famous Oporto cousins. Whites are most often based on Fernão Pires and Bical, the latter being a small-berried variety with the affectionate nickname Borrado das Moscaos ('fly droppings').
What are the typical flavors of the Baga grape variety?
- Red fruitPresent in 21% of Baga
- OakPresent in 18% of Baga
- EarthPresent in 18% of Baga
- Non oakPresent in 16% of Baga
- Black fruitPresent in 14% of Baga
- SpicesPresent in 12% of Baga
- MicrobioPresent in 11% of Baga
- Dried fruitPresent in 8% of Baga
- VegetalPresent in 6% of Baga
- FloralPresent in 6% of Baga
- ChocolatePresent in 5% of Baga
- TobaccoPresent in 5% of Baga
- CherryPresent in 4% of Baga
- EarthyPresent in 4% of Baga
- LeatherPresent in 4% of Baga
- OakyPresent in 4% of Baga
- Black fruitsPresent in 3% of Baga
- CedarPresent in 3% of Baga
- Tree fruitPresent in 3% of Baga
- Citrus fruitPresent in 3% of Baga
News about the grape variety Baga
Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’
Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...
Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts
The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...