Wine region
Alenquer
Alenquer is a wine region in Portugal, home to 1 wineries, producing red, white wines.
On this page
Alenquer's 1 wineries lean red but make plenty of white too; Merlot is the most common single-grape bottling.
Most common single-grape wines
When Alenquer wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:
- Merlot
- 1 single-grape wine
Wine profile
Alenquer leans red (about 59% of its wines) but makes meaningful white too.
17 distinct Alenquer wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
- Red10 · 59%
- White7 · 41%
Types: Still.
Representative Alenquer wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- Quinta Do Pinto — Terra do Anjo Reserva Branco
- Casal Figueira — Lisboa Tinto
- Quinta Do Pinto — Tinta Miuda
- Quinta Do Pinto — Viognier Chardonnay
- Quinta Do Pinto — Terras do Anjo Tinto
- Quinta Do Pinto — Reserva Touriga Nacional
- Quinta Do Pinto — Arinto
- Quinta Do Monte d'Oiro — Syrah 24
Portugal wine designations
- DO
- DO is Portugal’s official category for wines protected as a European Union DOP and governed by a registered product specification.
- VR
- Vinho Regional is the Portuguese regional-wine term associated with a European Union IGP and governed by a registered product specification.
Understanding the wine data
- Designation
- The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
FAQs
- What do the designation terms on Alenquer wines mean?
- DO: DO is Portugal’s official category for wines protected as a European Union DOP and governed by a registered product specification. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
- How are wineries and producers selected for Alenquer?
- Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
- How are representative Alenquer wines selected?
- Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
- How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Alenquer?
- The current regional catalogue contains 17 linked wines from 1 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.
Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.