The Winery Fraga do Corvo of Douro of Duriense

Winery Fraga do Corvo
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Duriense.
It is located in Douro in the region of Duriense

The Winery Fraga do Corvo is one of the best wineries to follow in Douro.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fraga do Corvo wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Fraga do Corvo

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Fraga do Corvo

How Winery Fraga do Corvo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of carri of shrimps with chillies, patatas bravas (fried potatoes with spicy tomato sauce) or saffron monkfish.

Discovering the wine region of Douro

The wine region of Douro is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 1110 estates and châteaux in the of Douro, producing 4307 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Douro go well with generally quite well with dishes .

The top red wines of Winery Fraga do Corvo

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fraga do Corvo

How Winery Fraga do Corvo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef fashion, spaghetti neapolitan style or ghormeh sabzi (iranian herbed lamb stew).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Fraga do Corvo

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Fraga do Corvo. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Fraga do Corvo

  • 2016With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5

Discover the grape variety: Refosco ped. rosso

Refosco dal peduncolo rosso is a very old grape variety, certainly finding its first origins in the region of Friuli situated in the north-eastern point of Italy. It should not be confused with terrano or refosco d'Istria, ... the one described here is more qualitative. It can be found in the former Yugoslavia, in Argentina, ... in France it is almost unknown. According to genetic analysis, it is the son of the marzemino, the grandson of the teroldego, the father of the corvina and the grandfather of the rondinella (Pierre Galet).

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet-Franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet-Sauvignon which means that it is also well planted further north, as far as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Fraga do Corvo and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Cruzille

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Cruzille, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWi ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Vergisson

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Vergisson, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

The word of the wine: Pressing Rosé

A method of making rosé wine that consists of pressing the grapes directly after crushing and light skin maceration. The resulting wine is lively, light and pale.

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