Tinta Barroca

'Tinta Barroca'
Synonyms	see section synonyms
Art	Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color	black
use	Red grape
origin	Portugal
VIVC no.	12462
ancestry
Cross of ' Marufo ', × ' Touriga Nacional '
List of grape varieties

'Tinta Barroca' is one of the six most important red wine varieties (in addition to the varieties ' Touriga Francesca ', ' Touriga Nacional ', ' Tinta Roriz ' (= 'Tempranillo'), ' Tinta Amarela ' and ' Tinto Cão ') for the production of port wine .

Origin, descent

It is a cross between the ' Marufo ' × ' Touriga Nacional ' varieties .

distribution

The early ripening variety is suitable for dry areas, such as those found on the slopes of the Douro , and produces dark, brightly colored wines. In Portugal it is cultivated on around 7,200 hectares . In addition to being used in port wine, it is also recommended for the Trás-os-Montes region . It is also approved in Madeira , Ribatejo and the Oeste region . In South Africa it is also widespread with 491 hectares of planted area and is used there for port wine-like wines. Smallest stands (0.0393 hectares, as of November 2015) were surveyed in Switzerland .

Synonyms

'Baroccas', 'Barroca', 'Boca de Mina', 'Tinta Barocca', 'Tinta das Baroccas', 'Tinta Gorda', 'Tinta Grossa', 'Tinta Vigaria'.

See also

• Viticulture in Portugal
• Viticulture in Namibia
• Viticulture in South Africa

literature

• Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 3rd revised edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
• Richard Mayson: Port and the Douro . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84000-943-9 .
• Wolfgang Hubert, David Black Forest: Portugal and its wines . 2nd Edition. Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8338-0641-4 .

Web links

• Grape varieties from Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VIVC database
2. ↑ Characterization of portuguese grapevine Cultivars using random amplified polymorphic DNA markers by F. Leal, I. Castro, H. Guedes-Pinto, O. Pinto-Carnide, JM Ortiz and JP Martãn
3. ↑ The 2015 Wine Year - Wine Economy Statistics (Section 1.4: Vineyards by Variety , p. 16), Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), April 2016 (PDF; 971 kB); Retrieved April 18, 2017
4. ↑ VIVC database