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guide to the

wines of

the algarve

Thanks

The Algarve Regional Tourism Board wishes to express its thanks to Hermínio Rebelo and all Algarve wine

producers for their excellent collaboration.

Under the Sign

“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the

world and one of the most natural things

of the world that has been brought to the

greatest perfection, and it ofers a greater

range for enjoyment and appreciation than,

possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”

Ernest Hemingway

of Bacchus

excellence and quality of their wines. This proves

that they are working well and are creating excep-

tional products, which is yet another cause for pride

at the Algarve Regional Tourism Board.

This guide is but a small sample of the Algarve,

where an ancient tradition has been brought back

through the use of new techniques and new meth-

ods in the art of producing the drink of the gods,

symbolised by Bacchus, and which represents the

good cheer and the pleasure that exists in every

drop of Algarve wine.

Please discover, taste and enjoy the wines of the Al-

garve that we are introducing to you here.

Wine and vines have been in the

Algarve for centuries, dating back

to the time of the Roman pres-

ence on the Iberian Peninsula.

The soil, be it sandy or clayey, is

a medium that is conducive for

the growing of grape varieties

as wide-ranging as Trincadeira,

Aragonez, Touriga-Nacional, Ar-

into, Malvasia-Fina and Moscatel-

Graúdo, along with many other

equally well-known varieties, that

are used to produce red, white,

rosé and fortiied wines which,

since the 1980s, have given the

Algarve the status of a demar-

cated region.

Nowadays, the Algarve includes

the Denominações de Origem

Controlada (DOC) of Lagoa, Lagos,

Portimão and Tavira, which in the

past decade have introduced

new brands and new concepts

of wine-making into the market,

and many Algarve producers

have been awarded prizes for the

The President of the Algarve Regional Tourism Board.

Nuno Aires

Guide to the Wines of the Algarve

The Wines of the Algarve

The Wines

of the Algarve “Nectar of the gods”: this is another name for

wine, the juice of the grape.

Because of its exceptional climate, its soil and

its south-facing location, the Algarve has what

is known in specialist wine terminology as an

excellent terroir for growing vines. For this rea-

son, the Tartessians are thought to have been

the irst people to produce wine in the region

in about 2000 B.C. They were followed by others,

from the Phoenicians to Greeks and from the

Celts to the Romans, who, when they brought

Christianity to the Peninsula, introduced wine

into the communion liturgy because it was a

product regarded by the church as pure and

uncorrupted.

varieties to the region. The magic of Algarve

wine was reborn.

Tourism, which is a crucial factor in the regional

economic strategy, needs contributions like

this. And wine – which was never a big draw

among the Algarve’s attractions for tourists

– needed this new closer relationship.

For this reason, the publication of this guide by

the DRAPALG and the ERTA, with the coopera-

tion of wine-growers and the helpful collabora-

tion of head sommelier Hermínio Rebelo, is of

great importance for us to the extent that the

symbiosis between tourism and agriculture

contributes to maintaining the mosaic of the

landscape and to the development of regional

activities and products which still leave their

mark on the present, preserve the past and

project our identity into the future.

The importance of wine was once again recog-

nised when it was mentioned in the charters

of Tavira (1266) by D. Afonso III, and Porches

(1286) by D. Dinis. However, it was impossible

for the growing of vines on the sands of the

coastline to generate the same income as tour-

ism, so that in the middle of the 20 th century

the ields were abandoned and the production

of wine rapidly began to decline. However, it

has been interesting to see the progress in the

wine-growing sector in the Algarve in recent

years. And the future looks very bright.

With this initiative, the oicial bodies are doing

no more than is their duty, providing business-

people with the conditions in which they can

thrive. All that remains is for the latter to grasp

their opportunities and forge ahead along new

avenues essential to the airmation of the Al-

garve Wine Route.

In 1996, when the DRAPALG proposed the ap-

pointment of the president of the CVVR and

was involved in the approval of a “PROAGRI”

project, the aim was to re-launch the business.

The CVVR and the technical staf who were

contracted realised that the traditional grape

varieties were favouring quantity over quality

and they began the process of getting recog-

nition for the introduction of new, interesting

Director of the Algarve Regional

Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries

Joaquim Castelão Rodrigues

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