The Winery Fraguas of Beiras

Winery Fraguas - Reserva
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
This estate is part of the ALDI.
It is ranked in the top 1041 of the estates of Beiras.
It is located in Beiras

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

Top Winery Fraguas wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Fraguas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fraguas

How Winery Fraguas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of wild boar stew in burgundy style, douez battata with cardoons (moroccan lamb stew) or duck aiguillettes with basalmic.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Fraguas

On the nose the red wine of Winery Fraguas. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, vanilla or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Fraguas. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Fraguas

  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz

Discovering the wine region of Beiras

Beiras (Beira) is a traditional administrative region in the northern half of Portugal. It is also the name of the IGP, or Indicacoes Geograficas Protegidas, wine classification (formerly known as Vinho Regional) which covers the region as a whole. A wide range of wines are made in Beiras – red wines from the region are typically Rich, deeply colored wines made from Baga, Castelão, Rufete (Tinto Pinheira), Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Touriga Nacional, and are sometimes fortified to emulate their more famous Oporto cousins. Whites are most often based on Fernão Pires and Bical, the latter being a small-berried variety with the affectionate nickname Borrado das Moscaos ('fly droppings').

Beiras is relatively wide, as Portuguese regions go, and stretches from the Atlantic coast right to the border with Spain (about 100 miles/160km). It was traditionally a single region, but was later split into Beira Litoral (coastal Beira) and Beira Interior (inland Beira). The region encompasses several DOC (Denominação de Origem Controlada) titles, among them Bairrada, Beira Interior and the famous Dão. Terroir varies greatly in the Beiras region, which touches both sides of Portugal and takes in coastline, rivers, valleys, lakes, plateaux and low mountains.

The same is true of the Climate – although heavily influenced by the Atlantic in the maritime west, the continental draw of Spain's hot, DryCenter is strong in the east. In the west are the sandier soils of the coast, slightly inland are the limestone and clays of Bairrada, and the center has the alluvial soils of the Dão, Mondego and Ceira river valleys. Baga is arguably the most important red wine grape in Beira. It typically makes up the lion's share of red wines, particularly in Bairrada, where it accounts for more than three-quarters of the red plantings.

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: Servadou iron

A black grape variety from the southwest that produces a wine with spicy tannins and black currant and raspberry aromas. Under the name of Mansois, it is the main grape variety of Marcillac; it is also one of the important varieties of Gaillacois, where it is called Braucol. It is also used in the blends of other South-Western appellations (Fronton, Lavilledieu, Estaing, Madiran). Syn.: braucol, pinenc, mansois.