🍇 Baga
Dark-skinned wine grape from Portugal; one parent is Malvasia Fina; 29 synonyms in VIVC.
Baga is a dark-skinned wine grape from Portugal.
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, one of its parents is Malvasia Fina; the other is unknown.
According to VIVC, it covered 9,885 ha in Portugal (2010). Samples of the variety are kept in 9 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 29 synonyms for it, among them Bago de Louro, Bagrina Crvena and Bairrada, so the same grape can turn up under other names. 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
🍇 Baga → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ Portuguese wine
- Where it grows
- 📍 Bairrada, 📍 Dão
- Main grape in
- 📜 Encostas d'Aire, 📍 Bairrada
- Related to
- 🍷 Sparkling wine
- Wines made from it
- 🍷 Rosé
- Parents
- 🍇 Malvasia Fina
Frequently asked questions
Where does Baga come from?
According to VIVC, from Portugal.
What are the parents of Baga?
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, one of its parents is Malvasia Fina; the other is unknown.
Under what other names is Baga known?
VIVC lists 29 synonyms for it, among them Bago de Louro, Bagrina Crvena and Bairrada, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🗺️ Portuguese wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes, appellations.
- 📜 Encostas d'Aire — Wines from the slopes of the Aire hills around Leiria and Fátima.
- 🍷 Rosé — Wine from dark grapes kept briefly with their skins, so the colour is pale pink.
- 🍷 Sparkling wine — Four EU categories with at least 3 bar of carbon dioxide; traditional, tank and ancestral methods; Champagne, Cava, Prosecco.
- 📍 Dão — The DOP Dão appellation in north-central Portugal: a granite plateau ringed by mountains, demarcated in 1908; 9,834 ha (2025).
Similar
🍇 Bical · 🍇 Fernão Pires · 🍇 Fernão Pires · 🍇 Encruzado · 🍇 Alfrocheiro · 🍇 Boal
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Baga
- VIVC: area statistics BAGA
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata