Bucelas is a Portuguese wine-region located in the Lisboa wine-region. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC). Located south of the Arruda DOC, the region is noted for its potential for cool fermentation white wine production. Vineyards in the area are planted on predominantly loam soils. The white wines of Bucelas became widely popular during the Elizabethan era in England and again during the Victorian age. In London the wines were sometimes described as Portuguese hock because of their similarities to the German Rieslings from the Rhine. Urban sprawl in the 20th century has drastically reduced viticulture in the area, located north of the Portuguese capital city, Lisbon.
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Bucelas is an appellation in Lisboa, Portugal. We track 6 of its wines in stock at 4 shops, from 2 wine houses, from € 5.93; mostly white.
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Lisboa
- In our wines
- Arinto
- Styles
- White 6
- Prices
- from € 5.93 · median € 25.80 / 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 | – | – | – | – | warmdryso far +0.9 °C · 1,724 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 2025 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.6 °C · 1,935 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2024 | 1 | € 5.93 | € 5.93 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,833 GDD · 76 % rain |
| 2023 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.0 °C · 2,014 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2022 | 1 | € 28.64 | € 28.64 | – | warmwet harvest +0.5 °C · 1,898 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 2021 | 1 | € 16.49 | € 16.49 | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,733 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 2020 | – | – | – | – | averagewet ±0.0 °C · 1,795 GDD · 183 % rain |
| 2019 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,718 GDD · 76 % rain |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.4 °C · 1,709 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2017 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,843 GDD · 41 % rain |
| 2016 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.1 °C · 1,776 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2015 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,846 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest +0.4 °C · 1,877 GDD · 87 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.2 °C · 1,747 GDD · 64 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,776 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 1,900 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,818 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,835 GDD · 73 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,744 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,714 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.9 °C · 2,002 GDD · 121 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.4 °C · 1,896 GDD · 68 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,797 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | averagewet +0.1 °C · 1,831 GDD · 161 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,652 GDD · 111 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,738 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,736 GDD · 124 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | averagewetwet harvest +0.1 °C · 1,826 GDD · 143 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,721 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | warmwetdry harvest +0.6 °C · 1,931 GDD · 148 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,729 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.7 °C · 1,961 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.5 °C · 1,695 GDD · 86 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | coolwetwet harvest −0.6 °C · 1,667 GDD · 186 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,704 GDD · 99 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.1 °C · 1,772 GDD · 58 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 1,914 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.7 °C · 1,956 GDD · 93 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | coolwetdry harvest −0.6 °C · 1,678 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,868 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,647 GDD · 75 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,762 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.4 °C · 1,701 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.3 °C · 1,725 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.4 °C · 1,721 GDD · 74 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Bucelas'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 appellation. 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.