The Winery Cruzeiro is one of the best wineries to follow in Minho.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Cruzeiro wines in Minho among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cruzeiro 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 Cruzeiro wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Cruzeiro wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of carne de porco alentejana (sliced pork with vongoles) recipe..., goat cheese and bacon quiche or parmesan and poppy seed tuiles (5th meeting).
On the nose the white wine of Winery Cruzeiro. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Cruzeiro. is a with a nice freshness.
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.
How Winery Cruzeiro wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef stew provencal style, baked lamb neck on a bed of vegetables and grapes or duck fillets with honey.
In the mouth the red wine of Winery Cruzeiro. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
Intraspecific cross between Gamay and Reichensteiner obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet at the Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil research station (Switzerland). From this same crossbreed, Gamaret and Mara were also born.
How Winery Cruzeiro wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
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Flexible metal fastener used to hold the cork of champagne bottles.
