The Winery Testamento of Alentejano

Winery Testamento - Branco
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is ranked in the top 1970 of the estates of Alentejano.
It is located in Alentejano

The Winery Testamento is one of the best wineries to follow in Alentejano.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Alentejano to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Testamento wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Testamento

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Testamento

How Winery Testamento wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of mascarpone pasta with tomato sauce, broccoli gratin or pike quenelles with lobster bisque sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Testamento

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Testamento. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Testamento

  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 2.90/5

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.

The top red wines of Winery Testamento

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Testamento

How Winery Testamento wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, merguez - courgettes gratin (leftover barbecue) or curried veal roulades.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Testamento

On the nose the red wine of Winery Testamento. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Testamento. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Testamento

  • 2015With an average score of 3.43/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.36/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.19/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.09/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.04/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Touriga Francesa
  • 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.

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Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Testamento and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Floral

Said of a wine whose aromas are reminiscent of flowers.

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