Wine region
Pico
Pico is a wine region in Portugal, home to 4 wineries, producing white wines.
On this page
Pico's 4 wineries produce predominantly white wine; wines carry DO designation.
About the Pico region
- Location
- The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture is a Unesco World Heritage Site on Pico Island, part of the archipelago of the Azores, Portugal.
- Climate
- The Pico PDO area has a temperate oceanic climate with small temperature ranges and high rainfall distributed regularly through the year; it is somewhat drier than the other Azorean islands.
- Soils
- Pico PDO vineyards are planted in non-humic litholic soils and lithosols over consolidated basalt or related recent lava, often with rock outcrops and stony material.
Region facts sourced from European Commission eAmbrosia, Pico, file PDO-PT-A1445, attachment 22328. (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents), Wikipedia contributors, "Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture", Wikipedia, revision 1303568723, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).
Wine profile
Pico is predominantly a white-wine region (about 100% of its wines).
22 distinct Pico wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
- White20 · 100%
Types: Still.
Representative Pico wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- Ilha do Pico — Arinto dos Acores
- Eruptio — Arinto dos Acores
- Azores — Arinto dos Acores Indigenas
- Adega do Vulcao — Reserva Pico do Monte
- Eruptio — Verdelho
- Adega do Vulcao — Pe do Monte
- Ilha do Pico — Lajido Fine Old Reserve Medium Sweet
- Eruptio — Terrantez do Pico
Quality designations
Wines here carry DO status — a controlled quality designation.
- DODenominación de Origen — Spain's controlled-origin designation.
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.
How to choose a good Pico wine
Look for the DO designation — it signals a controlled-origin Pico wine.
FAQs
- Where is Pico?
- The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture is a Unesco World Heritage Site on Pico Island , part of the archipelago of the Azores , Portugal .
- What do the designation terms on Pico 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 Pico?
- 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 Pico 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 Pico?
- The current regional catalogue contains 22 linked wines from 4 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.