Portugal makes more wine than it can reasonably drink, in more styles than any single guide can carry. This almanac is our reading of it. 85 regions, ranked the way we'd visit them; the houses our critics keep returning to; and a short list of restaurants where we'd spend the evening.
Femente · Country Almanac
A wine atlas ofPortugal
Portugal
85
5,040
1,934
The country, in numbers and adjectives.
The terroirs, by hand.
9 regions worth the trip first — chosen by the Femente desk for the houses we’d open with, the variety of styles within each, and the cooking that grew up around them.
Northern Portugal
The Douro cuts through schist and granite, and the wines it yields split between austere reds built on steep terraces and ports that age…
Duriense
The Douro's unfortified reds—dense schist-grown wines of dark fruit and mineral grip—compete for attention with the fortified wines that…
Douro
The Douro's steep schist slopes bend toward power and restraint in equal measure: its reds run dark and structured, its whites cut with…
Central Portugal
Central Portugal builds its reds from granite and schist soils that extract mineral tension from native grapes like Touriga Nacional and…
Alentejano
Alentejo's reds age in the Portuguese sun with dark fruit and rusticity, their tannins rough enough to demand roasted meat, their…
Minho
Minho fizzes with green-grape acidity and low alcohol, a region where producers chase the snap of barely ripe fruit over ripeness, and…
Beiras
The Beiras splits itself between granite highlands that pull crisp, mineral whites and reds built for food rather than showiness—wines…
Vinho Verde
Vinho Verde trades depth for lift—a region where acidity and slight carbonation matter more than ripeness, and producers push toward…
Lisboa
Lisboa winemakers chase freshness and food-friendliness where others settle for weight, coaxing mineral precision and bright acidity from…
The country’s house grammar.
The 8 styles Portugal makes most of, ranked by bottle count on Femente. The bar beneath each cell shows that style’s share of portugal’s production.
4,920
Southern Portugal Red — the country’s most numerous bottle.
4,202
3,190
2,206
2,196
2,157
1,755
1,438
The houses that keep showing up.
9 Portugal estates the prestige critics have agreed on — ordered by the count of 95+ scores across Vinous, Decanter, Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator.
Where to spend the evening.
12 rooms across Portugal our editors keep coming back to — chosen for the cooking and the wine list, in that order.
Gastronomic Rest. The Yeatman
Grill · Rotisserie · Traditional — Vila Nova de Gaia
97
Il Gallo d'Oro
Rotisserie · European · Fine Dining — Funchal
97
Vila Joya
European · Fine Dining — Albufeira
96
Belcanto
Fine Dining · European — Lisbon
96
KABUKI Lisboa
Seafood · Sushi · Fusion — Lisboa
93
Cura
European — Lisbon
92
EPUR - Vincent Farges
European — Lisbon
92
Feitoria
European — Lisbon
92
Restaurante Eleven
Modern · European — Lisbon
92
Ó Balcão
Grill · Modern — Santarém
92
Sála
Grill · Modern · European — Lisbon
92
Versátil Restaurante
Grill · European — Reguengos de Monsaraz
92
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