The Winery Fonte do Nico of Península de Setúbal

Winery Fonte do Nico - Tinto
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
This estate is part of the Santo Isidro de Pegões.
It is ranked in the top 400 of the estates of Península de Setúbal.
It is located in Península de Setúbal

The Winery Fonte do Nico is one of the best wineries to follow in Península de Setúbal.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Península de Setúbal to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fonte do Nico wines

Looking for the best Winery Fonte do Nico wines in Península de Setúbal among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Fonte do Nico 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 Fonte do Nico wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fonte do Nico

How Winery Fonte do Nico wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of grandma melanie's cassoulet, lasagna with pointed cabbage or veal paupiettes with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

On the nose the red wine of Winery Fonte do Nico. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, red fruit or raspberry and sometimes also flavors of black fruits, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Fonte do Nico. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

  • 2010With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Fonte do Nico.

  • Castelao

Discovering the wine region of Península de Setúbal

Setúbal Peninsula (also known as Península de Setúbal) is the Portuguese wine region immediately southeast of Lisbon, across the Tejo estuary. The Terroir in the area ranges from sandy coastal plains to the craggy, limestone-rich Serra Arribida hills. The area is known for its Dry red wines made from Castelão, and for its fortified wines and Sweet Moscatel de Setúbal. The wines produced here are made under three titles: two DOCs, Palmela and Setúbal, and one IGP.

The IGP (formerly VR, or Vinho Regional) has been officially named "Peninsula de Setúbal" since 2008, but before that was known as VR Terras do Sado, meaning "lands of the river Sado". The Sado is one of Portugal's major rivers, and flows North from the Caldeirão hills to Setúbal city, on the southern edge of the eponymous peninsula. The Setúbal Peninsula's two DOC titles cover a similar area, but encompass different styles of wine. Palmela covers both the sandy plains and the hills, while Setúbal covers the land on the hills.

The Castelão Grape which comprises the majority of Palmela wines performs admirably on the dry, sandy soils, which is one of the few terroirs in Portugal where it can reach Full ripeness. Other Portuguese and international varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon, Touriga Nacional and Syrah are planted on the slopes hills. The other DOC covering the peninsula, Setúbal, is for sweet fortified wines made from Muscat of Alexandria, here known as Moscatel de Setúbal. These are made slightly differently from Portugal's most famous fortified wine, Port, in that leftover grape skins are added to the wine after Mutage.

The top white wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Fonte do Nico

How Winery Fonte do Nico wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of salmon and spinach lasagna, stuffed potatoes or cuttlefish in parsley sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

On the nose the white wine of Winery Fonte do Nico. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Fonte do Nico. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

  • 2017With an average score of 3.41/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.32/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.27/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Fonte do Nico.

  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Fernao Pires
  • Moscatel de Setúbal
  • Moscato

Discover the grape variety: Fernao Pires

In Portugal, it is one of the most planted white grape varieties, and we have found it to be very similar to the torrontés grown in Spain (Galicia). It can be found in Australia and South Africa, but is almost unknown in France.

The top pink wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Fonte do Nico

How Winery Fonte do Nico wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of braised beef with carrots or stuffed pumpkin.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Fonte do Nico

  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.18/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.17/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Fonte do Nico.

  • Castelao
  • Aragonez
  • Touriga Nacional

The word of the wine: Oenologist

Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fonte do Nico

Planning a wine route in the of Península de Setúbal? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Fonte do Nico.

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: Oenologist

Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.

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