Portugal and Wines - by Premium Drinks RO

Portugal is one of the largest producers of wine in the world both in terms of the surface cultivated and the quantities of wine produced and sold wine consumption, respectively.

7th place in the world on the surface cultivated, local 11 in world wine production and consumption in 3rd place, 42.5 liters per capita. 

Over 700 M euros is the Portuguese wines and exports value approx. 42% of wine production goes for export. 
These are some of the countries of the Portuguese wine export: UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, USA, Canada, Germany, China and Brasil-markets already consecrated Russia, and former Portuguese colonies in Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Guinea-bissau, etc.), Romania, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Finland.

Vita de vie and Portuguese Wines are the result of sequence of tradition and culture inherited from the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans who brought Portugal vineyard and winemaking cultivars and artistry. 

The war between France and England in the late seventeenth century, known in history as "the war of the Grand Alliance or the war of the League of Ausburg (1689-1697) and the Treaty of Methuen (Lord Methuen was principal negociador and Ambassador of England) in 1703, namely Textile and wine Treaty allowed the entrance of Portuguese wine meant French wine to England, thus causing an increase in exponenciala of surfaces cultivated with vines.



Ribeira do Douro-Douro Valley is the oldest protected region, dividing line (with specific legislation and regulations) and the first in the world (1756) though the regions of Chianti (1716) and Tokaj (1730) have papers and documents which prove the existence of such wine winemaking regions but had no regulations and no law theme.

Vinho do Porto was given this name, halfway through the 17th century, after the city of Porto (port on the Atlantic Ocean where the Douro River flows through an estuary in the ocean). Before it was called Vino Fino.

Among the most important wine-growing winemaking regions-DOC-appellation of Controlled Origin Vinho Verde DOC-greatest-approx. 34,000 ha. 9 sub-regions: Monção e Melgaço; Lima; Amarante; Paiva; Sousa; Basto; Baião, Cávado; Ave; DOC Douro-Porto; Dão DOC; Bairrada DOC; DOC Tejo; DOC Setubal; Alentejo DOC; DOC Algarve; DOC Madeira; DOC/Açores. 


Portugal has over 285 local varieties, identified and recorded. Among the most important: a. Red-Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Roriz, Cão Target Target, Target, target Barroca Amarela, Baga, Aragones miúda, Target, target negra, Castelão, Trincadeira b. Alvarinho Trajadura, white, Loreiro, Arinto, Viosinho, Maria Gomes, Antão Vaz, Verdelho, Rebigato, Bical, Entruzado, Fernão Pires, Gouveio, 

Area of vines in the world: Spain-1.018.000 ha; France-800,000 ha; Italy-769.000 ha; China-570,000 hectares; Turkey-517.000 ha; USA-over 407,000 hectares; Portugal-239.000 ha; Argentina-221.000 ha 


Wine Consumption: Luxembourg-50,7 l/year; France-47,7 l/year; Portugal-42.5 l/year; Italy 37.1-l/year; Croatia-34.4 l/year; Slovenia-33.1 l/year; Denmark-32,6 m/year; Austria-29,7 l/year; Belgium-27.8 l/year; Germany-24.4 l/year; Argentina-24.4 l/year.