📜 Portimão
An appellation by the town of Portimão in the Algarve.
Portimão is a protected designation of origin (PDO). Country: Portugal. Part of: Algarve.
Wines made here: Red wine, White wine, Still wine.
The name is listed in eAmbrosia, the official EU register of geographical indications, and is protected throughout the EU.
Portimão is the smallest of the four Algarve sub-regions: in the 1980 demarcation it was drawn around the single municipality of Portimão. The Algarve has four protected designations of origin, Lagos, Portimão, Lagoa and Tavira. The region gets over 3,000 sunshine hours a year, and its soils are mostly sandy, clayey, limestone and sandstone. Castelão and Negra Mole are among the region's red grapes.
How it connects to Wine
📜 Portimão → → → 🍷 Still wine → kind of → 🍷 Types of wine → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Related to
- 📍 Algarve, 🍷 Still wine
- Wines
- 🍷 Red wine, 🍷 White wine
Frequently asked questions
Where is Portimão?
Portimão is a wine area in this country: Portugal.
What does the Portimão status mean?
Portimão is a protected designation of origin: the wine is made only in this area, under its rules and from permitted grapes.
Similar
📜 Lagoa · 📜 Tavira · 📜 Lagos · 📍 Dalmatian Hinterland · 📜 Bergland · 📜 Carinthia
⚠️ Wine contains alcohol: adults only, drink in moderation. Wine usually contains sulphites; egg white or milk proteins are sometimes used for fining — important for allergies and for vegans.
Sources
- eAmbrosia – EU geographical indications register
- Portaria 207/80 (Algarve demarcation, FAO FAOLEX copy)
- Wines of Portugal - Algarve