Portuguese Words On Portuguese Wine Labels and Wine Words You Should Know

Colheita means vintage. (It's actually the Portuguese word for harvest. So this was the 1976 harvest.)

Portuguese - English
branco - white
colheita - vintage or harvest
de - of
doce - sweet
maduro - mature or aged
mesa - table (I remember: Don't make a mess on the table.)
quinta - farm, estate or winery
seco - dry
tinto - red (Think of tinted red.)
verde - green or young
vinho - wine
vinhos - wines
vinho de calidad - wine of quality
vinho de mesa - table wine

English - Portuguese
aged or mature - maduro
dry - seco
farm, estate or winery - quinta
green - verde
harbest or vintage - colheita
of - de
red - tinto
sweet - doce
table - mesa (I remember: This table is in a mess.)
table wine - vinho de mesa
vintage or harvest - colheita
white - branco
wine - vinho
wines - vinhos
winery, estate or farm - quinta
wine of quality - vinho de calidad
young (wine) - verde (literally green)

Useful Websites
https://catavino.net/portuguese-wine-label/ (Reading a wine label. Wine tours of Spain and Portugal.)

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.