The Winery Aguiao of Minho

Winery Aguiao
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 392 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho

The Winery Aguiao is one of the best wineries to follow in Minho.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Aguiao wines

Looking for the best Winery Aguiao wines in Minho among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Aguiao wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Aguiao wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Winery Aguiao

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Aguiao

How Winery Aguiao wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Aguiao.

  • Espadeiro
  • Caiño tinto

Discovering the wine region of Minho

Minho is Portugal's Northernmost wine region. It is known for one wine style above all others: crisp, light, white Vinho Verde, whose DOC zone covers the same territory. The Minho name is used for the area's Vinho Regional designation (similar to the French IGP). The latter's looser production laws allow more diversity in the average winery's portfolio, including red and rosé wines.

Minho VR was formerly known Rios do Minho before the Vinho Regional category was updated in 2008 to fall in line with the EU-wide PGI/IGP/IGT category. The region is located on the Portugal's Atlantic coast to the north and east of Porto, Portugal's second-largest city and the home of Port. It occupies a roughly rectangular area about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from north to South, which reaches about 50km (30 miles) inland. There are around 60,000 hectares of vines planted in Minho.

Many of these are dedicated to Vinho Verde, the country's largest DOC. Minho Grape Varieties A number of varieties are also found in Spains Rias Baixas region, which Lies immediately to the north. The key grape varieties to be found in white Minho wines include the natives Alvarinho, Avesso, Loureiro, Pederna (Arinto) and Trajadura. Chardonnay and Riesling are the most common international white varieties.

The top red wines of Winery Aguiao

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Aguiao

How Winery Aguiao wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of rosbeef casserole mamie, lamb tagine with honey and onions or baked leg of daguet or roe deer.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Aguiao

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Aguiao. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Aguiao

  • 2013With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Aguiao.

  • Vinhão

Discover the grape variety: Noah

American, resulting from a natural cross between taylor (Vitis Labrusca x Vitis Riparia) and Vitis Riparia, the seeds of the taylor then sown in 1869 by Otto Wasserzicher in Nauvoo, Illinois. Noah has been used extensively as a progenitor by hybridizers such as Baco, Bertille-Seyve, Castel, Gaillard and Seibel, the best known being baco blanc or baco 22A (folle blanche x Noah). In France, it is one of the six hybrids prohibited since 1935 (included in European regulations): clinton, herbemont, isabelle, jacquez, Noah and othello. Today, it has practically disappeared and can sometimes be found in private homes established in vineyards.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Aguiao

Planning a wine route in the of Minho? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Aguiao.

Discover the grape variety: Espadeiro

News about Winery Aguiao and wines from the region

At the heart of the Mâcon terroir

In line with our previous videos « The Climats of Chablis seen from the sky » and « The vineyards of Bourgogne, seen from the sky » », the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) and the Union des Producteurs de Vins de Mâcon offer you a new stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. Established in 1937, this Régionale appellation is divided into three levels: – The first level is known as white, red or rosé Mâcon. The grapes used can come from all around the Mâconnais. – The second level is name ...

Chablis wines with Joe Fattorini in The Wine Show @Home

In this first episode of a series dedicated to Chablis wines on @The Wine Show @Home, wine expert and TV host Joe Fattorini introduces the vineyards and the wines of Chablis through a tasting of three wines: a Petit Chablis, a Chablis and a Chablis Premier Cru. #PureChablis #BourgogneWines #Chablis ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Pierreclos

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Pierreclos, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are availablein French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

The word of the wine: Ban des vendanges

Date of the beginning of the grape harvest, fixed by the lord in the tradition of the Middle Ages and, today, by the prefect.

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