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Have you ever wondered which are the best known red grape varieties inside and outside Portugal? Here you can learn a little more about them so that you can later distinguish them when drinking a glass of red wine.

Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by fermenting grape juice. It can be divided into six different types: red wine, white wine, rosé wine, sparkling wine, fortified wine and late harvest wine.

Portugal is the country with the widest variety of indigenous grape varieties, it has more than 250. It was the first country to have a demarcated and regulated wine region - the Douro region. It also has two wine regions protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

How to decide which wine to drink according to the meal you have on the table? Harmonization is the good combination between wine and food, it is the balance between the flavors of both so that one does not cancel or overlap the other.