Wine region

Bairrada

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About Bairrada

Bairrada is a Portuguese wine region located in the Beira Litoral Province. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC), and its popularity has surged over the last years. It is small and quite narrow coastal region, part of the broader region of Beira Atlântico, and it is bordered to the northeast by the Lafões IPR and to the east by the Dão DOC.

From the Wikipedia article Bairrada DOC, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bairrada is a wine region, Portugal. Typical grapes: Baga. We track 199 of its wines in stock at 19 shops, from 17 wine houses, from € 4.87; mostly red, white.

At a glance
Country
Portugal
Grapes
Baga
In our wines
Baga, Arinto, Touriga Nacional, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
Styles
Red 110 · White 65 · Rosé 14 · Sparkling 10
Prices
from € 4.87 · median € 18.70 / 75 cl

Vintages

per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote
VintageWinesFromMedian / 75 clCritics' scoreGrowing season
2026––––hotdryso far +1.4 °C · 1,805 GDD · 60 % rain
20255€ 6.44€ 10.16–hot +1.2 °C · 2,026 GDD · 95 % rain
20247€ 4.87€ 18.80–average +0.2 °C · 1,820 GDD · 99 % rain
202312€ 4.89€ 15.79–hot +1.2 °C · 2,030 GDD · 118 % rain
202221€ 7.88€ 18.92–hot +1.0 °C · 1,986 GDD · 86 % rain
202121€ 5.72€ 16.00–averagewet harvest −0.4 °C · 1,695 GDD · 113 % rain
202014€ 5.76€ 13.74–averagewetwet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,769 GDD · 155 % rain
20199€ 9.49€ 21.46–average −0.4 °C · 1,687 GDD · 98 % rain
20188€ 8.71€ 17.85–averagedry harvest −0.2 °C · 1,728 GDD · 96 % rain
201711€ 35.34€ 41.47–warmdrydry harvest +0.5 °C · 1,880 GDD · 47 % rain
20166€ 16.49€ 35.45–average −0.2 °C · 1,730 GDD · 121 % rain
20156€ 34.38€ 73.99–average +0.1 °C · 1,801 GDD · 94 % rain
20145€ 29.90€ 32.26–averagewet harvest +0.3 °C · 1,840 GDD · 105 % rain
20131€ 135.62€ 135.62–average −0.2 °C · 1,738 GDD · 82 % rain
20121€ 117.52€ 117.52–average −0.3 °C · 1,705 GDD · 113 % rain
2011––––warmdrydry harvest +0.7 °C · 1,935 GDD · 67 % rain
2010––––averagedry harvest +0.4 °C · 1,862 GDD · 92 % rain
20091€ 36.37€ 36.37–averagedry harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,782 GDD · 86 % rain
2008––––cool −0.5 °C · 1,664 GDD · 116 % rain
20071€ 101.46€ 101.46–averagedrydry harvest −0.3 °C · 1,703 GDD · 70 % rain
2006––––hotwet harvest +1.0 °C · 1,986 GDD · 117 % rain
2005––––warmdry +0.6 °C · 1,908 GDD · 70 % rain
2004––––average −0.1 °C · 1,755 GDD · 108 % rain
20031€ 30.19€ 30.19–average +0.2 °C · 1,824 GDD · 105 % rain
2002––––coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,628 GDD · 121 % rain
20011€ 113.41€ 113.41–average −0.3 °C · 1,721 GDD · 88 % rain
2000––––average −0.4 °C · 1,688 GDD · 125 % rain
1999––––averagewet harvest +0.2 °C · 1,824 GDD · 126 % rain
1998––––averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,740 GDD · 109 % rain
1997––––warm +0.8 °C · 1,950 GDD · 126 % rain
1996––––average −0.2 °C · 1,733 GDD · 83 % rain
19951€ 38.44€ 38.44–hotdry +1.1 °C · 2,014 GDD · 51 % rain
1994––––cool −0.6 °C · 1,640 GDD · 97 % rain
1993––––coolwetwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,633 GDD · 182 % rain
1992––––average −0.4 °C · 1,697 GDD · 99 % rain
1991––––averagedry +0.2 °C · 1,829 GDD · 55 % rain
1990––––warm +0.9 °C · 1,973 GDD · 93 % rain
1989––––hotdry harvest +1.2 °C · 2,042 GDD · 73 % rain
1988––––coolwetdry harvest −0.6 °C · 1,651 GDD · 130 % rain
19871€ 38.44€ 38.44–warmwetwet harvest +0.5 °C · 1,877 GDD · 139 % rain
1986––––cooldry −0.6 °C · 1,655 GDD · 68 % rain
19851€ 52.44€ 52.44–averagedrydry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,803 GDD · 69 % rain
1984––––cool −0.5 °C · 1,677 GDD · 116 % rain
19831€ 39.14€ 39.14–cooldry harvest −0.5 °C · 1,676 GDD · 105 % rain
1982––––averagewet harvest −0.4 °C · 1,699 GDD · 83 % rain

Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Bairrada'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.