The Winery Azinhal of Beiras

Winery Azinhal - Baga - Syrah
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 989 of the estates of Beiras.
It is located in Beiras

The Winery Azinhal is one of the best wineries to follow in Beiras.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Beiras to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Azinhal wines

Looking for the best Winery Azinhal wines in Beiras among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Azinhal 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 Azinhal wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Azinhal

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Azinhal

How Winery Azinhal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with mushrooms, lamb collar with mustard or roast duck in the oven.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Azinhal

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Azinhal. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Azinhal

  • 2015With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Azinhal.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Baga

Discovering the wine 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').

Beiras is relatively wide, as Portuguese regions go, and stretches from the Atlantic coast right to the border with Spain (about 100 miles/160km). It was traditionally a single region, but was later split into Beira Litoral (coastal Beira) and Beira Interior (inland Beira). The region encompasses several DOC (Denominação de Origem Controlada) titles, among them Bairrada, Beira Interior and the famous Dão. Terroir varies greatly in the Beiras region, which touches both sides of Portugal and takes in coastline, rivers, valleys, lakes, plateaux and low mountains.

The same is true of the Climate – although heavily influenced by the Atlantic in the maritime west, the continental draw of Spain's hot, DryCenter is strong in the east. In the west are the sandier soils of the coast, slightly inland are the limestone and clays of Bairrada, and the center has the alluvial soils of the Dão, Mondego and Ceira river valleys. Baga is arguably the most important red wine grape in Beira. It typically makes up the lion's share of red wines, particularly in Bairrada, where it accounts for more than three-quarters of the red plantings.

The top white wines of Winery Azinhal

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Azinhal

How Winery Azinhal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of mussels with camembert cheese, hummus (chickpea puree) or medallion of white fish with shrimp sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Azinhal

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Azinhal. is a with a nice freshness.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Azinhal.

  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Bical
  • Maria Gomes

Discover the grape variety: Baga

Most certainly Portuguese.

Discover the grape variety: Millot Léon

Interspecific crossing between the 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann (1858-1932) around 1911 and marketed around 1921. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Maréchal Foch. Léon Millot is still found in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and England. In France, where it was grown for a long time in Alsace, it is no longer grown in the vineyards, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A.

News about Winery Azinhal and wines from the region

Study reveals glimpse of ancient Roman winemaking

Jars recovered from the seabed and dating back to the Roman period have offered more clues about winemaking and storage in this era, according to a study that used a mixture of analysis techniques. A combination of chemical markers, plant tissue residue and pollen analysis helped researchers to build a picture about the possible contents of three amphorae ‘wine jars’ discovered near the coastal town of San Felice Circeo, around 90km south-east of Rome. ‘The evidence suggests the amphorae were us ...

The Wine Society improves provenance and quality of The Blind Spot

The Wine Society has made a move to improve the provenance and quality of its exclusive The Blind Spot wine range. The business said it would, for the first time in its history, provide the funding for buying grapes rather than liquid for the range of Australian wines. Winemaker Mac Forbes has spend the last decade identifying ‘interesting’ parcels of wine for the range, which has been an integral part of The Wine Society’s portfolio for the past 10 years, and securing them before th ...

EPI purchases Super Tuscan producer Isole e Olena

The De Marchi family established the 56ha estate back in 1956, and it is now firmly established as one of the region’s leading producers. Isole e Olena played a key role in reviving the quality of Chianti in the 1970s, and its flagship wine – Cepparello, a barrique-aged Sangiovese from old vines – is regarded as one of the original Super Tuscans. A Piedmont lawyer called Francesco De Marchi founded the business, but his visionary son – Paulo De Marchi – has driven its rise to prominence. He is r ...

The word of the wine: Perfume

A pleasant scent most commonly associated with the world of flowers.