The Winery Barrocas do Mar is one of the world's great estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Açores to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Barrocas do Mar wines in Açores among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Barrocas do Mar 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 Barrocas do Mar wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Barrocas do Mar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of italian pasta salad, pasta "carbonara" à la française or my chef's pot.
Portuguese volcanic archipelago in the mid-Atlantic (1,500 km from Lisbon), with spectacular vineyards in black basalt stone-wall enclosures ("currais") on Pico Island, a UNESCO site. Verdelho is the signature native white (~80% of plantings): dry and taut with citrus, green apple, white flowers, herbs and an intensely saline iodine mineral edge, vibrant refreshing acidity. Arinto dos Açores is nervy and Terrantez do Pico rare as complements. Atlantic island character.
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Structured, taut whites with precise acidity and a slender mouth, featuring aromas of citrus (lemon, orange peel), dried fruits, toasted almond, Mediterranean herbs and pronounced saline notes. A historic pillar of medium-dry Madeira (one of the island's four classic noble grapes) where it develops complex oxidative notes. Also as structured dry whites in Douro DOC and Australia (Hunter Valley). Native Portuguese grape, unrelated to Spanish Verdejo.
