The Winery Barranco Longo is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 29 wines for sale in of Algarve to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Barranco Longo wines in Algarve among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Barranco Longo 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 Barranco Longo wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Barranco Longo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of chinese fried shrimp ravioli, beef carrots or mussels with beer.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Barranco Longo. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Barranco Longo. is a powerful.
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.
How Winery Barranco Longo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of stuffed zucchini, simple chinese noodle soup or tournedos rossini with port sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Barranco Longo. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or non oak and sometimes also flavors of microbio, vegetal or tree fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Barranco Longo. is a powerful.
Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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 small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
How Winery Barranco Longo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pasta al forno (baked pasta) or truffle with saint-nectaire cheese.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Barranco Longo. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
Bottle with a capacity of 6 liters (synonym of mathusalem).
How Winery Barranco Longo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of barbecued filet mignon, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
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It is a crossbreed made in 1855 by Louis and Henri Bouschet from an intraspecific crossing between Grenache noir and Petit Bouschet. The Alicante Henri Bouschet is less and less multiplied, registered however in the Official Catalogue of the varieties of vine of wine grapes list A.
