Touriga Nacional

Touriga Nacional
Synonyms	see section synonyms
Art	Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color	blue-violet
use	Red grape;
origin	Portugal
VIVC no.	12594
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Touriga Nacional is an autochthonous red wine variety from Portugal . It is mainly grown in the Douro Valley for port and red wine production.

origin

The grape variety comes from Portugal. A DNA analysis showed a closer relationship to the Portuguese grape variety Tinta Barroca .

distribution

The traditional cultivation area of the variety is the Douro valley, but areas in the Dão , Tras-os-Montes and the Alentejo are also planted. At the end of the 1990s, the area under vines in Portugal was around 2,760 hectares. Smaller stocks are also known in Australia , South Africa and the United States . In 2010 the area under cultivation worldwide was 10,435 ha.

Wine

Touriga Nacional was cultivated along the Douro mainly for port wine production. The rather low-yield grape variety is also used for ordinary wine production. The wines produced from the Touriga Nacional are tannin-rich , tasty red wines with a high alcohol content, a dark color, a balanced acid structure , complex spicy notes and resinous aromas. The best products are of excellent quality and are particularly suitable as lager wines with a high aging potential for full-bodied wines.

Ampelographic features

The shoot tips are hairy with white wool.
The young leaf is bronzed. The leaves are small to medium-sized, five-lobed, broad central lobes with a V-shaped petiole. The upper side of the leaf is slightly vesicular and the underside is lightly hairy and unevenly serrated.
The grapes are small, loose berries, conical, slightly shouldered.
The berries are medium-sized, oval, thick-skinned, blue-violet, fragrant and the taste is slightly astringent.

properties

The shoots are strong. The yields are low and the variety has good resistance to powdery mildew .

Synonyms

The names 'Azal Espanhol', 'Bical', 'Bical Tinto', 'Mortagua', 'Mortagua Preto', 'Preto Mortagua', 'Tinta Mortagua', 'Toiriga', 'Touriga', 'Touriga Femea', 'Touriga' Fina ',' Tourigão ',' Tourigo ',' Tourigo Antigo ',' Tourigo Do Dão ',' Tourigo Nacional ',' Touringa ',' Touriva 'and' Turiga 'are used synonymously with' Touriga Nacional '.

Web links

Grape varieties from Portugal

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 .

Individual evidence

↑ 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
↑ Kym Anderson, Nanda R. Aryal: Which Winegrape Varieties are Grown Where? National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 2000 and 2010 ; Wine Economics Research Center, University of Adelaide, South Australia, December 2013, revised July 2014. engl.
↑ Touriga Nacional in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)

[1] 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

[Weltanbauflaeche-2] Kym Anderson, Nanda R. Aryal: Which Winegrape Varieties are Grown Where? National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 2000 and 2010 ; Wine Economics Research Center, University of Adelaide, South Australia, December 2013, revised July 2014. engl.

[3] Touriga Nacional in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)