The Winery Adega do Cantor of Algarve

Winery Adega do Cantor
The winery offers 24 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 35 of the estates of Algarve.
It is located in Algarve

The Winery Adega do Cantor is one of the world's great estates. It offers 24 wines for sale in of Algarve to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Adega do Cantor wines

Looking for the best Winery Adega do Cantor wines in Algarve among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Adega do Cantor wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Adega do Cantor wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Adega do Cantor

How Winery Adega do Cantor wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or shellfish such as recipes of quiche with mixed vegetables, salmon and goat cheese quiche or cuttlefish a la plancha.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Adega do Cantor.

  • Viognier
  • Verdelho
  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Antão Vaz
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Algarve

Algarve ('the Algarve' to most English speakers) is the southernmost wine region of Portugal, and the far southwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. It is more widely known for its beaches and thriving tourist industry than its wines. Although a small quantity of fresh-styled white wines are made here, the wines of the Algarve are predominantly red, and made from classic Portuguese varieties like Castelão and Touriga Nacional, as well as more international varieties like Syrah. The region's wines are produced largely by a by a small number of upscale co-operatives, although the fashion for independent producers is catching on quickly.

Traditionally Algarve wines have been high in Alcohol, the result of a Warm, maritime Climate – just 125 miles (200km) separates Algarve's easternmost Vineyards (in Tavita) from Tangiers, on the North coast of Africa. The region is seperated from the Alentejo plain and the colder north by the Monchique mountains creating an warmer macroclimate for viniculture. The Vitis vinifera vine thrives here in the Algarve climate, which is as well suited to the vine's long-term needs as it is to the short-term needs of humans. The same Bright sunshine, warm air and sea breeze which brings tourists here in their droves is precisely what grape vines require to give prolific yields and fruit with sky-high potential alcohol.

But while the human contingent here is happily self-irrigating, and retreats to air-conditioned comfort at night, the vines are left outside to swelter in the warm night air. Although seemingly perfect, these climatic conditions serve to accelerate the vine growing season, bringing the grapes to their juicy, Sweet potential before they have had a chance to develop much depth of flavor. They also trade their natural acids for sugars as they ripen, so by the end of the season their juice is full of sugar (potential alcohol) and little else. Thus the type of wine traditionally associated with the Algarve is highly potent, lacking in the refreshing acidity which would come in so handy here, and tastes slightly 'baked' – the result of all those hot nights.

The top red wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Adega do Cantor

How Winery Adega do Cantor wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of monkfish tail with white butter, rigatoni with courgettes and tomatoes or blanquette of veal.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

On the nose the red wine of Winery Adega do Cantor. often reveals types of flavors of earth, black fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Adega do Cantor. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

  • 2004With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.72/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Adega do Cantor.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Alicante Bouschet
  • Aragonez

Discover the grape variety: Antão Vaz

The top white wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Adega do Cantor

How Winery Adega do Cantor wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of spaghetti with old-fashioned tomato sauce, stuffed tomatoes with thermomix or squid rings with tomato.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

On the nose the white wine of Winery Adega do Cantor. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, tropical fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, vegetal. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Adega do Cantor. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

  • 2013With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.46/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.45/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.42/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Adega do Cantor.

  • Verdelho
  • Viognier
  • Arinto de Bucelas

The word of the wine: Ovoids (tanks)

Egg-shaped vats used for wine making and maturing that favour the natural suspension of the lees thanks to the vortex movements, which give the wine more fat and fruity aromas.

The top pink wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Adega do Cantor

How Winery Adega do Cantor wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef tagine with prunes and almonds, rack of lamb with herbs or mutton stew with potatoes and garlic.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Adega do Cantor. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Adega do Cantor

  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Adega do Cantor.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Aragonez
  • Alicante Bouschet

Discover the grape variety: Arinto de Bucelas

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Adega do Cantor

Planning a wine route in the of Algarve? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Adega do Cantor.

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Adega do Cantor and wines from the region

The Mâcon plus appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the appellation Mâcon plus geographical denomination . The tectonics and the very different nature of the rocks that make up the subsoil of this region explain the great variety of soils found in this part fo Bourgogne. It also explains why each wine offers a different personnality. This vid ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Cruzille

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At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Azé

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The word of the wine: Ovoids (tanks)

Egg-shaped vats used for wine making and maturing that favour the natural suspension of the lees thanks to the vortex movements, which give the wine more fat and fruity aromas.

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