Lisboa Wine Region

The Lisboa Wine Region

The Portuguese province known as Estremadura is one of all of our provinces with the most pronounced complexity, whatever the character we have to consider and here we find the Lisboa Wine Region.

When observing and approaching the Lisbon Wine Region, in terms of its terroir, we have to consider a climatic assessment in the transition between lands visited by humid and permanent winds from the West and some dry climate.

As for the type of vegetation in the northern part, it is close to that of Central Europe, while at the southern end it already has Mediterranean characteristics.

The alluvial lands contrast with the slopes where secondary limestone abounds and the floodplains are opposed to the mountainous massifs of the eastern border.

Therefore, it is a land of dispersion and plurality, being sometimes referred to as a land where paradoxes abound.

This region is part of what represents the great metropolis that is Lisbon, although located at one end of the region of Extremadura, indelibly and increasingly marks the social habits of the region.

The character of rurality that for a long time characterized in general the population that lived in the province of Estremadura, was only changed in perfectly defined poles with the industrialization introduced since the 19th century, very affected by the development of the road system, with emphasis on the backbone that most recently started to connect the cities of Lisbon and Leiria.

The notion of Estremadura as frontier land resumes its meaning here, when it evokes the differentiation between the people of the lands south of the mountainous barrier that is evident in Montejunto towards the sea and the people of the most northern lands, in the Lis floodplains ( Leiria).

But when referring to the settlement in Extremadura, although in a very superficial way, we cannot stop talking about couples or farms.

This situation contributes to intermediate dispersion formations called couples or farms.

The farm is a designation that was initially taken as a sub-unit within a rustic villa and consequently referenced to a Roman origin where the villa was designed for a rural settlement structure.

This is the most significant structure, in a component of manifest dignity and that even today throughout Estremadura has a high heritage, almost entirely linked to the production of wine and which is often referred to when it is marketed.

In the Lisbon region we consider the following appellations of origin: Alenquer, Arruda, Bucelas, Carcavelos, Colares, Encostas d'Aire (Alcobaça and Medieval de Ourém), Lourinhã, Óbidos and Torres Vedras and also the homonymous geographical indication ("Lisboa Regional Wine ").

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