The Winery Dornas of Alentejano

Winery Dornas
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 2665 of the estates of Alentejano.
It is located in Alentejano

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

Top Winery Dornas wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Dornas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Dornas

How Winery Dornas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of beef stew, quiche with tartiflette or veal chop with rosemary.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Dornas

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Dornas. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Dornas

  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Alicante Bouschet
  • Touriga Nacional
  • Aragonez
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Alentejano

Tejo">Alentejo is a well-known, highly respected wine region in eastern Portugal. This hot, Dry area covers approximately a third of the country and is best known for its red wine, the best of which are sold under the and Alentejo DOC (Denominacao de Origem Controlada) title. Wine from Alentejo is typically made from Aragonez (Tempranillo), Castelao, Trincadeira or a Rich, ripe, jammy blend of the three. Antao Vaz is the white variety of choice here, producing a good level of Acidity and tropical fruit flavors.

Although famously diverse in its portfolio of wine grapes (navigating the many names and their synonyms is a challenge), Alentejo has not been sluggish to adopt such globally popular varieties as Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. One of the most remarkable things about modern Alentejo winemaking is its ability to create a uniquely Alentejano wine style from quintessentially French grape varieties. The region is named for its position South of the Tejo river, which bisects Portugal, entering the ocean near Lisbon. Alentejo extends across about a third of Portugal, with only the Algarve region separating it from the southern coast of the country.

Even the briefest of glances at a population density map of Portugal shows that this area of the country is only very sparsely populated, in stark contrast to the Northern coastal areas around Oporto. Land here is used (somewhat intensively) for the production of various cereal crops, and the cork for which Portugal is so famous. Whereas the cork plantations of the north are quite small, here in Alentejo there is sufficient free space for the thick-barked Quercus suber trees to sprawl out all over the countryside. The Size of Alentejo means that there is a wealth of Terroir, and it is fairly difficult to generalize about the region as a whole.

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Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

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The word of the wine: White Grenache

White grape variety cultivated mainly in Spain and a little in the south of France (southern Rhône valley, Languedoc-Roussillon). It is the white variety of Grenache noir. It is used in the blending of several white wines (dry wines or natural sweet wines) to which it gives richness, fatness and floral notes.

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