The Winery Foral de Portimao is one of the world's great estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Algarve to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Foral de Portimao wines in Algarve among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Foral de Portimao 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 Foral de Portimao wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Foral de Portimao wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of quiche with mixed vegetables, the secrets of croque-monsieur or clams in white wine.
In the mouth the white wine of Winery Foral de Portimao. is a .
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 Foral de Portimao wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of roasted fillet of beef with parsley, the real recipe for carbonara or tournedos rossini with port sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Foral de Portimao. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, chocolate or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, non oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Foral de Portimao. is a powerful.
How Winery Foral de Portimao wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., lamb chops marinated with herbs or baked falafels.
Period during which a wine is kept in a cellar where it goes through different phases of evolution of its aromatic range and a maturation of its constituents (evolution of the colour, refining of the tannins, harmonization of the different flavours, etc.). The wine evolves better and less quickly in large containers, whereas it deteriorates prematurely in half-bottles.
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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.
