red grape · regional staple
Trincadeira
Portugal
Say it
trin·kah·day·rah
Intervocalic 'd' softens to a voiced fricative in European Portuguese; American speakers can use a hard 'd' without losing recognizability.
On the palate
Body
medium full
Acidity
medium plus
Tannin
medium plus
Aromatics
pronounced
raspberryblack plumblackberryvioletblack pepperdried herbs
How you spot it blind: harvest window so narrow that days off either way ruins the wine
The story
First written down · 1712, Portugal
First recorded by name in 1712 in Vicenzo Alarde's Agricultura das Vinhas and formally classified across the Douro, Ribatejo, and Alentejo by the Visconde de Villa Maior in 1865.
Where it lives
Alentejo, Portugal · Douro, Portugal (as Tinta Amarela) · Dão, Portugal · Tejo/Ribatejo, Portugal
Shows up as
still redfortified
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