Portugal Flashcards
Which are the IGPs of Portugal?
There are fourteen IGPs in Portugal: Minho, Transmontano, Duriense, Terras do Dão, Terras de Cister, Terras da Beira, Beira Atlântico, Tejo, Lisboa, Alentejano, Península de Setúbal, Algarve, Terras Madeirenses, and Açores
Portuguese Wine Classifications?
Denominação de Origem Protegida (DOP) or Indicação Geogràfica Protegida (IGP). DOP is the superior classification and it includes all Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) wines. There are currently 31 DOPs.
The lower, or less stringent, tier of quality wines in Portugal is the Indicação Geogràfica (IG), or wines with “geographical indication”. These wines are considered IGP for the purposes of EU protection, or Vinhos Regional (VR) if traditionally labeled within Portugal. All wines in this category must include a minimum 85% of grapes grown in the stated region.
If produced as vintage-dated DOP or IGP, Portuguese table wines may be labeled as?
garrafeira
Tinto (red) garrafeira wines must age for ?
Branco (white) and rosado garrafeira wines must age for?
For traditional method sparkling wines, reserva instead indicates a minimum period of?
Colheita Seleccionada indicates a minimum?
30 months, including at least 12 months in bottle
12 months with at least 6 in bottle
12 months on the lees prior to dégorgement
1% higher alcohol content than that established by the regional appellation
Which was the most planted red grape variety of Portugal until recently and its synonym?
Castelão
“Periquita” moniker
Touriga Nacional synonyms?
Bical Tinto and Mortágua Preto
Which is the most planted white grape in Portugal and its synonym?
Fernão Pires, known as Maria Gomes in Bairrada, is the most planted white casta in the country
Arinto, one of Portugal’s oldest indigenous varieties, produces lively, mineral-tinged whites and is grown throughout the country, although its most striking examples issue from the coastal regions?
Bucelas
Sercial synonym?
Esgana Cão—the “dog strangler”
Vinho Verde DOP traditional training method?
Traditionally, vines in the region have been trained high off the ground in a system called enforcado
Which is the largest DOP of Portugal?
Vinho Verde and represents 15% of the nation’s total vineyard acreage, producing red, white, and rosado wines
Vinho Verde’s soils?
granite
Vinho Verde’s grapes?
Loureiro is the region’s most heavily planted white grape and the primary component of traditional Vinho Verde blends. Other white grapes include Trajadura (Treixadura), Avesso, Pedernã (Arinto), and the Spanish Albariño. Known as Alvarinho in Portugal.
Red and rosado wines, produced from grapes like Vinhão, Espadeiro, Borraçal, and Alvarelhão
Name the subzones of Vinho Verde
Monção e Melgaço, Lima, Cávado, Basto, Ave, Amarante, Sousa, Baião, Paiva
Which is the DOP of Trasmontano?
Trás-os-Montes DOP
Name the subregions of Trás-os-Montes DOP
Chaves, Valpaços, and Planalto Mirandés
Name the grape varieties of Trás-os-Montes DOP
Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Bastardo (Trousseau), Touriga Francesa and Trincadeira. Fernão Pires, Síria, Viosinho, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina and Rabigato are the most planted white grapes
Name the IGP and DOPs of Douro
Duriense IGP
It includes the DOPs of Douro and Porto
Name the subzones of Douro
Baixo Corgo, Cima Corgo, Douro Superior
Name the mountain range of Douro
Serra du Marão
Soils of DOuro?
schist and granite
Port production accounts for?
50% of production
Douro table wines may be?
red, white, or rosado
Name the grape varieties of Douro
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Cão, and Tinta Barroca
White varieties include Malvasia Fina, Viosinho, Rabigato, and Gouveio
Moscatel Galego
In the Douro, reserva wines must achieve a minimum alcohol of
White reserva wines must be aged for
11.5% or 12% for white and rosado wines or red wines, respectively, instead of the standard minimum 10.5% (white/rosado) or 11% (red) for the appellation six months; red reserva wines must be aged for one year
Regulatory body of Douro?
The IVDP must certify all Douro wines
all Port wines were required by law to be aged and shipped from Vila Nova de Gaia until?
1986
Barca Velha was launched?
1952
Casa Ferreirinha, a house now under the ownership of Sogrape
Fernando Nicolau de Almeida, who worked at
the time as a winemaker at Ferreira Port
Tinta Roriz blend
Phylloxera hit Portugal in?
1867
Who was the monarch of Portugal and when?
The 40-year rule of prime minister Antonio de Oliviera Salazar, from 1932, also did little to promote
quality wine production
Two incredibly successful brands were launched in the 1950s and 60s?
Mateus Rosé in 1942 and Lancers Rosé in 1944
Portugal entered the EU when?
1986
Terras do Dão IGP encompasses which DOPs?
Dão DOP and Lafões DOP
Bairrada DOP is located within?
Beira Atlantico
Name Beira Atlântico’s subzone
Terras do Sicó
Távora-Varosa DOP is famous for?
sparkling wines
Name the subzones of Dão
Alva, Besteiros, Castendo, Serra da Estrela, Silgueiros, Terras da Azurara, Terras de Senhorím
Dão’s soils?
granite
a larger appellation near the Spanish border, within the Terras da Beira IGP is called?
Beira Interior DOP
Beira Interior contains three subzones?
Beira Castelo Rodrigo, Cova da Beira, and Pinhel
Name the grape varieties of Dao
Dão wines may be red, white, rosado or espumante
Touriga Nacional, Jaen, Touriga Franca, Alfrocheiro, Aragonez, Bastardo, Rufete, Trincadeira, and Tinta Cão. Recommended white grapes include (but are not limited to) Encruzado, Bical, and Cercial
Dão producers may label their wines as garrafeira according to the standard aging regimen, but the minimum abv is increased to?
11.5% (from 11%).
Red wines may be labeled as reserva with ?
whites must be aged for?
Red nobre wines must contain a minimum of?
Red nobre wines must undergo a minimum?
White nobre wines must contain a minimum?
two years ageing
six months only
15% Touriga Nacional and at most 85% of combined Jaen, Rufete, Alfrocheiro, and Aragonez.
three years aging prior to release and contain a minimum 13% alcohol
15% Encruzado and a maximum 85% of Cercial, Bical, Malvasia Fina, and Verdelho. They undergo one year of aging prior to release and must contain a minimum 12% alcohol
With additional aging and an extra half-degree of minimum alcohol, nobre wines may also be labeled as reserva or garrafeira. Nobre reserva reds are aged for 42 months; white nobre reserva wines are aged for one year. Red nobre garrafeira wines require 48 months aging, including 18 months in the bottle, whereas white nobre garrafeira wines require 18 months total aging, with nine in the bottle.