The Winery Opta is one of the best wineries to follow in Beiras.. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Beiras to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Opta wines in Beiras among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Opta 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 Opta wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Opta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of daube niçoise, lamb shoulder confit with harissa or aiguillette of duck normandy style.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Opta. often reveals types of flavors of oak, black fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of spices, non oak or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Opta. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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.
How Winery Opta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of beef tagine with vegetables, christmas salad or goat cheese and bacon quiche.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Opta. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit.
How Winery Opta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of flying with the wind of the seas, baked vegetable chips or fillets of sole in a creamy sauce with autumn vegetables.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Opta. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Opta. is a with a nice freshness.
Perception of odours and aromas by the olfactory bulb. Retroolfaction is the same phenomenon inside the mouth via the retronasal route.
How Winery Opta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of wild boar stew in burgundy style or parmesan squash with cumin.
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