The Winery Convento do Paraíso is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Algarve to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Convento do Paraíso wines in Algarve among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Convento do Paraíso 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 Convento do Paraíso wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Convento do Paraíso wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of feijoada ( portuguese cassoulet ), spaghetti with courgettes and italian ham or bigos (polish sauerkraut with paprika).
On the nose the red wine of Winery Convento do Paraíso. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, red fruit or tobacco and sometimes also flavors of leather, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Convento do Paraíso. 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 Convento do Paraíso wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of spaghetti with squid ink (italy), lentils and morteau sausages or small cuttlefish a la plancha.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Convento do Paraíso. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Convento do Paraíso. is a .
How Winery Convento do Paraíso wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of blanquette of monkfish with small vegetables or quinoa parmentier and pumpkin purée.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Convento do Paraíso. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Expose the wine to the air before serving, to allow it to open up more, to develop its aromas and to round out its tannins.
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 Convento do Paraíso.
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