Winery Quinta do Infantado20 Anos Porto
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The 20 Anos Porto of the Winery Quinta do Infantado is in the top 0 of wines of Porto.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Infantado's 20 Anos Porto.
Discover the grape variety: Attiki
Variety obtained in Greece by Vassilis Mikos by crossing the Alphonse Lavallée with the black monukka, registered at the end of 2002 in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties list A1.
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Infantado
The Winery Quinta do Infantado is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Porto
The wine region of Porto is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 312 estates and châteaux in the of Porto, producing 2132 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes .
The wine region of Duriense
Duriense is a Portuguese wine region covering the same area as the Douro DOC and the Port wine region. In difference from Douro DOC, Duriense VR is a designation at the lower Vinho Regional (VR) level, which corresponds to table wines with a geographical indication under European Union wine regulations, similar to a French vin de pays region. Thus, it is the simpler or less typical wines of the Douro region that are sold using a Duriense VR label. Before the creation of a separate Duriense VR, the Douro vineyards were Part of the former Transmontano/tras-os-montes">Trás-os-Montes VR, which is now called Transmontano VR and no longer includes the Douro vineyards.
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The word of the wine: Hat
Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.
