The Winery Monte Maior of Alentejano

Winery Monte Maior
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 4400 of the estates of Alentejano.
It is located in Alentejano

The Winery Monte Maior is one of the best wineries to follow in Alentejano.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Alentejano to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Monte Maior wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Monte Maior

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Monte Maior

How Winery Monte Maior wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of beef stew express, tagliatelle with carbonara or vital tone / vitello tonnato (italy).

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Alicante Bouschet
  • Touriga Nacional
  • Aragonez

Discovering the wine region of Alentejano

Tejo">Alentejo is a well-known, highly respected wine region in eastern Portugal. This hot, Dry area covers approximately a third of the country and is best known for its red wine, the best of which are sold under the and Alentejo DOC (Denominacao de Origem Controlada) title. Wine from Alentejo is typically made from Aragonez (Tempranillo), Castelao, Trincadeira or a Rich, ripe, jammy blend of the three. Antao Vaz is the white variety of choice here, producing a good level of Acidity and tropical fruit flavors.

Although famously diverse in its portfolio of wine grapes (navigating the many names and their synonyms is a challenge), Alentejo has not been sluggish to adopt such globally popular varieties as Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. One of the most remarkable things about modern Alentejo winemaking is its ability to create a uniquely Alentejano wine style from quintessentially French grape varieties. The region is named for its position South of the Tejo river, which bisects Portugal, entering the ocean near Lisbon. Alentejo extends across about a third of Portugal, with only the Algarve region separating it from the southern coast of the country.

Even the briefest of glances at a population density map of Portugal shows that this area of the country is only very sparsely populated, in stark contrast to the Northern coastal areas around Oporto. Land here is used (somewhat intensively) for the production of various cereal crops, and the cork for which Portugal is so famous. Whereas the cork plantations of the north are quite small, here in Alentejo there is sufficient free space for the thick-barked Quercus suber trees to sprawl out all over the countryside. The Size of Alentejo means that there is a wealth of Terroir, and it is fairly difficult to generalize about the region as a whole.

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Discover the grape variety: Gamay à jus blanc

Typical Burgundian grape variety. According to published genetic analyses, it is the result of a natural cross between Pinot and Gouais, which are the same parents of Melon. Gamay is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Monte Maior and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Gross

Champagne with between 6 and 15 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).

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