Denomination of Origin

  Applicable concept to assignment of determined wines whose originality and individuality are on of indissociable form to one determined region, being:

- originary and produced wines in this region
- wines whose quality or characteristics themselves must essential
 or exclusively to the geographicalenvironment including the
natural and human factors.

  To benefit of a Denomination of Origin, all the process of production of the wine is subject to a rigorous control in all your phases, since the vine until the consuming. The chaste used, the wine methods and wine characteristics are only some of the elements whose control allows the attribution of this right, fitting the Wine Regional Commissions to proceed to this control of form to inside guarantee the quality of his demarcated regions
(Law n.° 8/85, of 4 de Junho)

QWPSR - 'Quality Wine Produced in a Specific Region '

  Communitarian nomenclature adoptee also in our country, after the adhesion to the European Union.

  Assigns wines of high quality, with a limited production and annually fixed for the Entities that regulate it, and that comes of grapes of chastes and definitive regions. To use this classification, exist norms definite ones how much to the characteristics, relatively to the color, flavor and aroma.
For times substituted by known reference DR - Demarcated Region this assignment englobe all the classified wines as DCO (Denomination of Controlled Origin) and IRP (Indication of Regulated Proveniencity).

DCO - 'Denomination of Controlled Origin': attributed assignment the wines whose production is tradicional­y on region geographically delimited and subjects to a set of consigned rules in proper legislation (characteristic of ground, chaste recommended and authorized, wine practical, alcoholic text, time of period of training, etc.).
In the practical one, the oldest producing regions of this type of wines had gotten this statute.

 IOR - 'Indication of Origin Regulated': assignment used for wines that, even enjoying of particular characteristics, will have to fulfill, in a minimum period of 5 years, all the rules established for the production of wines of great quality to be able, then, to pass to the classification of DCO. Applicable nomenclature to the licorosos, foaming and frisantes wines also exists:

• VLQPRD - Vinho Licoroso de Qualidade Produzido em Região Determinada

• VEQPRD - Vinho Espumante de Qualidade Produzido em Região Determinada

• VFQPRD - Vinho Frisante de Qualidade Produzido em Região Determinada

Regional Wine

  Classification given to the wines of table with Geographic Indication. Iss treated, also, of wines produced in a specific region of production, whose name adoptam, elaborated with proceeding grapes, at the very least of 85%, the same region chaste identified as recommended and authorized and citizens also to a certification system.
(Decreto-Lei n.° 309/91, de 17 de Agosto)

Table Wine

All of the wines that do not fit in the assignments VQPRD and Regional Wines are considerados wines of table.

The Wines of Table do not have no geographic landmark. They are lot wines, that is, wines that can be made with selections of good wines of north to the south of Portugal. They have, clearly is, to obey the rules, nominated in that respects to the quality, the presentation, the capacity of the bottle.