The Winery Granléve of Vinho de Portugal

Winery Granléve - Branco
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.
This estate is part of the Real Companhia Velha.
It is ranked in the top 70 of the estates of Vinho de Portugal.
It is located in Vinho de Portugal

The Winery Granléve is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Vinho de Portugal to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Granléve wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Granléve

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Granléve

How Winery Granléve wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of periwinkles - the perfect cook!, chorizo rillettes or haddock with curry cream.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Granléve.

  • Rabigato

Discovering the wine region of Vinho de Portugal

Portugal has undergone something of a wine revolution over the past two decades, modernizing its winemaking technologies, styles and attitudes. This archetypal Old World country has Long been famous for its fortified wines (Port and Madeira) and its light, tangy Vinho Verde. But it is now attracting much attention for its New wave of Rich, ripe table wines, especially the reds of the Douro Valley. Portugal's place in the wine world is arguably more about its cork production than its wine, but that largely depends on which period of history you choose.

In the 18th century, when England's supply of French wine was threatened by deteriorating international relations, the Portuguese Vineyard proved more than capable of Filling the void. It was only in the 20th century, when international demand for Portuguese wines dwindled to almost nothing, that Portugal took the lead in world cork production. In the 21st century, the Portuguese cork industry is struggling (due to the increasing popularity of plastic stoppers and metal screw caps), but the country's wines are on the rise again, led by the Dry reds of the Douro and Dao. Portugal's many grape varieties and their countless regional synonyms are the bane of ampelographers.

Some are endemic to Portugal (e. g. Touriga Nacional), while others are shared with neighboring Spain (e. g.

The top red wines of Winery Granléve

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Granléve

How Winery Granléve wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pasticcio (greece), dad's lamb mouse or wild boar leg of 7 hours.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Granléve

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Granléve

  • 2008With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.00/5
  • 1981With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Granléve

Planning a wine route in the of Vinho de Portugal? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Granléve.

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

News about Winery Granléve and wines from the region

Azores to get own regional vine and wine institute

The creation of an Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho dos Açores (IVVA), with headquarters in the island of Pico, follows the remarkable qualitative growth that the Archipelago of the Azores’ wine industry has been experiencing over the past decade. ‘People are excited about growing fruit and making wine here. There are about 300 growers producing their own fruit and a lot of small “garage” producers are starting. Some of them have worked and trained with us and are now making very interesting wines, ...

Dream job? Majestic to pay ‘vintern’ to drink wine on holiday

Wine lovers with a valid passport can apply for the Majestic ‘vintern’ scheme, launched this week and dubbed by the retailer as ‘the best summer job ever’. A three-day placement will include a visit to Quinta da Boavista vineyards in Portugal’s picturesque Douro region. Majestic said the vintern will also taste wines from its Wine Club’s Spain & Portugal Summer Case ‘in situ’, before trying the same wines back at home for comparison. It is offering £600 remuneration for three days, which it ...

Nomad winemaker: Why I make wine in Spain

When I started my nomadic winemaking project, in 2018 at Niepoort Vinhos in Portugal’s Douro region, I had no idea how large a part Spain would go on to play – I certainly never intended to make it the locus of my project. So how did it happen? Yes, there was an element of chance and taking opportunities where they arose. But also, among the talented winemakers to whom I pitched collaborations, I sensed an openness and a readiness to collaborate which seemed particular to Spain. Held in June las ...

The word of the wine: Fermentation

The process by which grape juice becomes wine, thanks to the action of yeasts that transform sugar into alcohol.