The Winery Monte da Casteleja 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 Monte da Casteleja wines in Algarve among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Monte da Casteleja 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 Monte da Casteleja wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Monte da Casteleja wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of provencal stew, risotto of coquillettes with chorizo or provencal veal tendrons.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Monte da Casteleja. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Monte da Casteleja. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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 Monte da Casteleja wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of pasta romantica, oven-baked sausage or my chef's pot.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Monte da Casteleja. often reveals types of flavors of orange, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or marmalade. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Monte da Casteleja. is a powerful.
How Winery Monte da Casteleja wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
1) Glass container with a narrow neck used to aerate or decant the wine. 2) Decanter wines: wines that are drunk young and that were once drawn directly from the barrel. For example, some Muscadets or Beaujolais.
Planning a wine route in the of Algarve? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Monte da Casteleja.
