Bairrada
Bairrada offers some of Portugal’s most exciting wines
What you should know about Bairrada:
- It is a very important area for sparkling wines
- Bairrada has a mild, maritime climate with plenty of rainfall, great for high acidity wines
Sparkling Bairrada wines - main grapes:
- Fernão Pires
- Arinto
- Bical
- Cerceal
- Baga
DOC Bairrada wine grapes since 2003:
- Touriga Nacional
- Alfrocheiro
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Pinot Noir
- Syrah
- Merlot
Red Bairrada are presented in a daze of styles. The dominant white grapes are:
- Maria Gomes
- Arinto
- Bical
- Cerceal
- Rabo de Ovelha