The cellar
Top-rated Fernao Pires
The highest-rated Fernao Pires bottlings we have reviewed, one per producer.
Region by region
Where Fernao Pires is made
2 regions, with their best Fernao Pires bottles and the estates that make them.
Wine and cheese
Cheese with Fernao Pires
Queijo de Nisa
Our pick Nisa is a firm ewe's cheese, slightly acid and intensely aromatic, made in the same Portalegre district as these whites. Their high acidity meets the cheese's own and keeps the finish clean against the fat of the raw milk.
Portalegre white, Alentejo: Tapada do Chaves Vinhas Velhas Branco · Conventual Branco
Queijo Serra da Estrela
Our pick Serra da Estrela's fresh paste is buttery, creamy and slightly acidulous. A dry Dão white blend of native grapes, raised mainly in steel or concrete, brings acidity that cleans the palate after each mouthful of the unctuous cheese.
Dão white blend, fresh and mostly unoaked, Dão: Casa de Mouraz Branco
Queijo Serpa Velho
Our pick Past 180 days Serpa Velho is hard, dry and intense, with a lingering flavour. A dry white fermented or aged wholly or partly in oak has the extra texture to stand beside it, and its acidity cuts the fat of the aged ewe's milk.
Barrel-fermented or part-oaked dry white, Alentejo: Tapada do Chaves Vinhas Velhas Branco
Queijo de Évora
Our pick Évora is firm, slightly picante and acid. A dry Alentejo white blend made without oak, light to medium in body and fresh, keeps pace with the cheese's tang, and no wood stands between the wine and the ewe's milk.
Unoaked Alentejo white blend, Alentejo: Solstício Branco · Conventual Branco
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