page_title: Alentejo wine
section_title: Subregions
hierarchical_section_title: Alentejo wine / Subregions
context_page_description: Alentejo is a Portuguese wine region in the Alentejo region. The entire region is entitled to use the Vinho Regional designation Alentejano VR, while some areas are also classified at the higher Denominação de Origem Controlada level under the designation Alentejo DOC. VR is similar to the French vin de pays and DOC to the French AOC. In the southern half of Portugal, the Alentejo region covers about a third of the country and is sparsely populated. In 2005, South Oregon University scientist Gregory V. Jones identified Alentejo as the world's most challenged wine region from a climate change perspective. The region is noted for it vast cork production but has in recent years garnered attention for its table wine production. Some producers of this region still do wine in great potteries as in Roman times.
context_section_description: There are eight subregions of the Alentejo region that are entitled to the Alentejo DOC designation. The names of the subregions may be indicated on the label together with the name Alentejo, for example as Alentejo-Borba. These subregions were initially created as separate Indicação de Proveniencia Regulamentada (IPR) wine regions, after which some were elevated to DOC status. In 2003, these separate DOCs and IPRs were put together as the Alentejo DOC. Listed from north to south the eight subregions are the following.
  Portalegre (formerly a DOC)
  Borba (formerly a DOC)
  Redondo (formerly a DOC)
  Evora (formerly an IPR)
  Reguengos (formerly a DOC)
  Granja-Amareleja (formerly an IPR)
  Vidigueira (formerly a DOC)
  Moura (formerly an IPR)
caption: Alentejo in Portugal.