The Winery Casal do Souto of Minho

Winery Casal do Souto
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 2292 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho

The Winery Casal do Souto is one of the best wineries to follow in Minho.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Casal do Souto wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Casal do Souto

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Casal do Souto

How Winery Casal do Souto wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of flying with the wind of the seas, cream of asparagus soup in verrines or back of cod with courgette tagliatelle.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Casal do Souto.

  • Trajadura
  • Alvarinho

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Casal do Souto

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Discover the grape variety: Alvarinho

The white Alvarinho is a grape variety originating from Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. The white Alvarinho can be found cultivated in these vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley.

News about Winery Casal do Souto and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Juice

The juice of wine grapes (intended for wine making) is colourless. It is the anthocyanins contained in the grape skin that colour the juice during maceration.

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