🍇 Antão Vaz
White wine grape from Portugal; parents Cayetana Blanca × Joao Domingos.
Antão Vaz is a white wine grape from Portugal.
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Cayetana Blanca and Joao Domingos.
According to VIVC, it covered 1,209 ha in Portugal (2010). Samples of the variety are kept in 5 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists one synonym for it, Antonio Vaz. If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.
How it connects to Wine
🍇 Antão Vaz → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ Portuguese wine
- Where it grows
- 📍 Alentejo, 📍 Vidigueira
- Main grape in
- 📍 Alentejo, 📜 Alentejano
- Parents
- 🍇 Cayetana Blanca, 🍇 João Domingos
Frequently asked questions
Where does Antão Vaz come from?
According to VIVC, from Portugal.
What are the parents of Antão Vaz?
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Cayetana Blanca and Joao Domingos.
Under what other names is Antão Vaz known?
VIVC lists one synonym for it, Antonio Vaz.
What to read next
- 🗺️ Portuguese wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes, appellations.
- 📍 Alentejo — A hot, flat region in southern Portugal; DOP Alentejo with 8 subregions, more than 25 thousand ha of vines and wine from clay talhas.
- 📍 Vidigueira — Home of white Antão Vaz and talha wine.
- 🍇 João Domingos — A red Portuguese grape.
- 📜 Alentejano — A regional wine of the hot Alentejo plain in southern Portugal.
Similar
🍇 Roupeiro · 🍇 Doña Blanca · 🍇 Rabo de Ovelha · 🍇 Tamarez · 🍇 Moreto · 🍇 Alfrocheiro
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Antao Vaz
- VIVC: area statistics ANTAO VAZ
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata