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Adega - a cellar or winery
Aguardente - brandy
Bagaceira - a drink made from distilling Bagaço (the grape skins and pips left from fermentation).
Barco Rebelo - a specially designed sailing vessel for transporting wine on the Rio Douro
Branco - white wine
CVR - Regional Wines - wines that are not DOC or IPR and are produced in a specific region from at least 85% of locally grown grapes
Carvalho - oak wood used for cask making
Cepa - a vine
Claro - new wine
DOC - controlled Appellation Wines produced in a Geographical Limited Region
Doce - sweet wine
Engarrafado - bottled
Espumante - sparkling wine
Garrafa - a bottle
Garrafeira - This word refers in Portugal to either a wine or a blend of wines from more than one region with no restriction on the varieties of grape unless indicated as a "Garrafeira RD". The wine must be of good quality - red wine is aged in wood for two years, white wine is aged for six months.
IPR - Regulated Origin of Wines with specific characteristics during a minimum of five years and therefore a superior wine to that of a DOC
Licoroso - a wine with high alcohol content
Maduro - a mature table wine
Pipa - a cask for shipping or maturing wines
Reserva - old wine of a good year
Rosado - a rosé wine
Seco - dry wine
Selo de Origem - the seal of origin guaranteeing the authenticity of a demarcated wine
Tinto - red wine
Uva - grape
Velho - old wine
VEQPRD - sparkling wine produced in a Denominated Region
VLQPRD - liquor wine of quality produced in a Denominated Region
Vinho - wine
Vinho de Mesa - table wine
Vinho Verde - a very young wine
VQPRD - wine of quality produced in a Denominated Region