Alentejo is a Portuguese wine region from the Alentejo region. The entire region is entitled to use the Vinho Regional designation Alentejano VR, while some areas are also classified at the higher Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) level under the designation Alentejo DOC. VR is similar to the French vin de pays and DOC to the French AOC. In the southern half of Portugal, the Alentejo region covers about a third of the country and is sparsely populated. In 2005, South Oregon University scientist Gregory V. Jones identified Alentejo as the world's most challenged wine region from a climate change perspective. The region is noted for it vast cork production but has in recent years garnered attention for its table wine production. Some producers of this region still make wine in great pottery vessels, as in Roman times.
From the Wikipedia article Alentejo wine, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alentejo is a wine region, Portugal. We track 807 of its wines in stock at 35 shops, from 56 wine houses, from € 3.50; mostly red, white.
- Country
- Portugal
- In our wines
- Alicante Bouschet, Syrah, Trincadeira, Touriga Nacional, Tempranillo
- Styles
- Red 462 · White 272 · Rosé 58 · Sparkling 7 · Dessert 1 · Orange 1
- Prices
- from € 3.50 · median € 16.29 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +1.9 °C · 2,477 GDD · 38 % rain |
| 2025 | 50 | € 4.07 | € 10.13 | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.5 °C · 2,694 GDD · 69 % rain |
| 2024 | 90 | € 3.74 | € 9.68 | – | warmdry harvest +0.9 °C · 2,572 GDD · 78 % rain |
| 2023 | 107 | € 3.52 | € 12.95 | – | hotwet harvest +1.8 °C · 2,762 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 2022 | 107 | € 4.59 | € 13.37 | – | hotwet harvest +1.4 °C · 2,682 GDD · 81 % rain |
| 2021 | 100 | € 5.34 | € 20.55 | – | averagewet harvest +0.1 °C · 2,400 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2020 | 74 | € 4.50 | € 16.17 | 92.0 (1 wine) | averagewet +0.3 °C · 2,438 GDD · 181 % rain |
| 2019 | 49 | € 5.99 | € 26.22 | 95.0 (1 wine) | averagedry +0.3 °C · 2,435 GDD · 64 % rain |
| 2018 | 42 | € 4.01 | € 21.67 | – | average ±0.0 °C · 2,372 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2017 | 31 | € 8.44 | € 33.85 | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.6 °C · 2,711 GDD · 35 % rain |
| 2016 | 14 | € 10.16 | € 23.28 | – | warmdry harvest +0.5 °C · 2,481 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2015 | 16 | € 8.02 | € 41.63 | – | warm +0.8 °C · 2,560 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 2014 | 4 | € 19.49 | € 44.88 | – | averagewet harvest +0.1 °C · 2,404 GDD · 117 % rain |
| 2013 | 2 | € 65.88 | € 101.55 | – | averagedry −0.2 °C · 2,336 GDD · 54 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 2,339 GDD · 86 % rain |
| 2011 | 1 | € 160.49 | € 160.49 | – | averagewet +0.4 °C · 2,461 GDD · 130 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.1 °C · 2,364 GDD · 103 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | warmdrydry harvest +0.7 °C · 2,530 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 2008 | 1 | € 155.15 | € 155.15 | – | cool −0.6 °C · 2,238 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 2,230 GDD · 103 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.2 °C · 2,647 GDD · 122 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.2 °C · 2,638 GDD · 69 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 2,423 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | coolwetwet harvest −0.5 °C · 2,267 GDD · 168 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 2,238 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.9 °C · 2,191 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.6 °C · 2,257 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest +0.2 °C · 2,429 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 2,238 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.5 °C · 2,277 GDD · 148 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.6 °C · 2,026 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.9 °C · 2,583 GDD · 43 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.7 °C · 2,237 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | coldwet −1.7 °C · 2,019 GDD · 155 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 2,318 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.2 °C · 2,418 GDD · 57 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.2 °C · 2,346 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | warmwet +0.5 °C · 2,480 GDD · 150 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | coldwetdry harvest −1.1 °C · 2,135 GDD · 135 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | average +0.4 °C · 2,461 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.6 °C · 2,260 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest −0.3 °C · 2,321 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | colddry harvest −1.0 °C · 2,153 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.3 °C · 2,314 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | cooldrywet harvest −0.9 °C · 2,195 GDD · 65 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Alentejo's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
Herdade do Rocim 36 · Herdade do Esporao 25 · Herdade do Sobroso 23 · Herdade dos Grous 17 · Carmim Reguengos 14 · Quinta da Fonte Souto 12 · Paulo Laureano 11 · Ribafreixo 10 · Cortes de Cima 10 · Herdade dos Outeiros Altos 8 · Dona Maria 8 · Herdade Grande 8 · Herdade de São Miguel 7 · Herdade de Medeiros 7 · Herdade da Calada 6 · Casa Relvas 5