The Winery Cambra of Minho

Winery Cambra - Escolha Branco
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 594 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho

The Winery Cambra is one of the best wineries to follow in Minho.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cambra wines

Looking for the best Winery Cambra wines in Minho among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cambra 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 Cambra wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Cambra

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Cambra

How Winery Cambra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of pageot, quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese or tuna rillettes.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Cambra

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Cambra. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Cambra

  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.37/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.18/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Cambra.

  • Loureiro
  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Trajadura

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 pink wines of Winery Cambra

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Cambra

How Winery Cambra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of quick beef bourguignon or chicken nuggets with cheese.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Cambra

  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 2.60/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional

Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

The top red wines of Winery Cambra

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Cambra

How Winery Cambra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, rice with paprika and merguez or aiguillettes of duck with paprika and pan-fried ceps.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Cambra

  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Vinhão

The word of the wine: Cuvée prestige (champagne)

Vintage or not, it is composed of a selection of terroirs and generally comes from the first press after eliminating the very first juices that come out of the press. The best known? Dom Pérignon, Cristal de Roederer, Grand Siècle de Laurent-Perrie, Louise at Pommery. In fact, all the houses and most of the independent winegrowers have their own prestige cuvee.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Cambra

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 Cambra.

Discover the grape variety: Loureiro

Most certainly Portuguese. Loureiro is part of the grape varieties of many Spanish and Portuguese appellations, including the famous Vinho Verde. It would be a close relative of the albarino and the sousão.

News about Winery Cambra and wines from the region

DO Terra Alta makes orange wine official

In the last board meeting of 2021 for the regulatory council of DO Terra Alta, in Catalunya, Spain, a long list of changes was approved. The most prominent was the making of a very strict certification system for wines that are 100% Garnatxa Blanca given that it’s their flagship grape variety. But perhaps the most interesting item is a bit further down the list that allows certification for a type of wines that in Catalan are called “vins brisats”. The name refers to white wine ...

’Low and no’ drinks trend gathers pace, says UK survey

Low and no alcohol drinks are becoming increasingly popular in the UK, according to a new YouGov survey commissioned by The Portman Group, the industry self-regulatory body. Nearly one third of respondents said they chose low or no alcohol drinks on a ‘semi-regular’ basis, up from one in four in a similar survey a year earlier. Its results fit with analysis that consumer demand for ‘low and no’ drinks is growing strongly in several developed countries. Portman Group and YouGov define ...

First grapes picked in Napa Valley 2022 harvest

The Napa Valley 2022 harvest got underway in early August for some sparkling and white wine styles. ‘We had our earliest harvest ever, and started picking Sauvignon Blanc on Monday 1 August,’ said Stephanie Honig, of Honig Vineyard and Winery. ‘The fruit came from our grower partner Gordon Family Ranch, which is located in the southeast area of the Napa Valley appellation,’ said Honig, who is export director at the family-owned winery. Harvest typically begins with older ...

The word of the wine: Cuvée prestige (champagne)

Vintage or not, it is composed of a selection of terroirs and generally comes from the first press after eliminating the very first juices that come out of the press. The best known? Dom Pérignon, Cristal de Roederer, Grand Siècle de Laurent-Perrie, Louise at Pommery. In fact, all the houses and most of the independent winegrowers have their own prestige cuvee.

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