Complexa is red
Portuguese wine
Portuguese wine was mostly introduced by the Romans and other ancient Mediterranean peoples who traded with local coastal populations, mainly in the South. In pre-Roman Gallaecia-Lusitania times, the native peoples only drank beer and were unfami ...
grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus '' Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.
The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years a ...
used in the production of
Madeira. The grape was created as a
crossing of
Castelao,
Muscat Hamburg
Black Muscat (or Muscat Hamburg) is a red ''Vitis vinifera'' grape variety derived from the crossing of the Schiava Grossa and Muscat of Alexandria by Seward Snow, Head Gardener to Earl de Grey at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire UK in 1850, according t ...
and
Tintinha in the 1960s. The grape provides a deep color with less
tannin
Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.
The term ''tannin'' (from Anglo-Norman ''tanner'' ...
s than the commonly used
Tinta Negra Mole.
[ J. Robinson (ed) ''"The Oxford Companion to Wine"'' Third Edition pg 191 Oxford University Press 2006 ]
See also
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List of Portuguese grape varieties
References
Red wine grape varieties
Madeira wine
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