The Winery Adega Cartaxo of Tejo

Winery Adega Cartaxo
The winery offers 23 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This estate is part of the Adega do Cartaxo.
It is ranked in the top 1 of the estates of Tejo.
It is located in Tejo

The Winery Adega Cartaxo is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Tejo to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Adega Cartaxo wines

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

The top sweet wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Adega Cartaxo

How Winery Adega Cartaxo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

  • 0With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo.

  • Fernao Pires

Discovering the wine region of Tejo

Tejo is a wine region in CentralPortugal which covers the same area as the Ribatejo province, just inland from the major city of Lisbon. The wine appellation's name was changed from Ribatejo in 2009. The entire region may use the Tejo VR (Vinho Regional) designation, similar to the French IGP/Vin de Pays, while some areas produce wines labeled with the higher-level Do Tejo DOC (Denominação de Origem Controlada). A Warm, Dry area, it is also Portugal's only landlocked region – although it is influenced considerably by the Tejo river.

As is the case in neighboring Alentejo, Tejo's top wines are mostly red. Like many parts of Portugal, Tejo's vignerons are looking to the future, planting international varieties like Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon aLongside traditional varieties like Touriga Nacional, Castelão and Trincadeira; wines are often blends of both types. The white wines are dominated by Aromatic, gently Spicy Fernão Pires. The area's wine regions straddle the Tejo river, the longest on the Iberian Peninsula.

Fertile alluvial soils have long supplied bumper yields of fruit and vegetables for the local population, and wine also benefits from the river's riches – not just in Portugal but in central Spain too. There are two official designations in the region – the Generic Tejo VR and the more specific Do Tejo DOC. These were named as such in 2009 – Prior to this, they were known as Ribatejano and Ribatejo respectively. As the river is the main waterway connecting Madrid and Lisbon, Ribatejo has long been one of Portugal's richest regions.

The top red wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Adega Cartaxo

How Winery Adega Cartaxo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of delicious bourguignon, mascarpone pasta with tomato sauce or roast veal with cider.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

  • 2012With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Tinta Roriz
  • Castelao
  • Tinta Amarela
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Alicante Bouschet

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Adega Cartaxo

How Winery Adega Cartaxo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Adega Cartaxo

  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5

The word of the wine: Melchior

Bottle with a capacity of 18 litres.

Discover the grape variety: Alicante Bouschet

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.

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