The Winery Encostas da Capela of Monção e Melgaço of Minho

Winery Encostas da Capela - Alvarinho
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 23 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Monção e Melgaço in the region of Minho

The Winery Encostas da Capela is one of the world's great estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Monção e Melgaço to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Encostas da Capela wines

Looking for the best Winery Encostas da Capela wines in Monção e Melgaço among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Encostas da Capela 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 Encostas da Capela wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Encostas da Capela

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Encostas da Capela

How Winery Encostas da Capela wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of chicken maffé (africa), nanie's diced ham quiche or parmesan crisps.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Encostas da Capela

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Encostas da Capela. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Encostas da Capela

  • 2020With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Encostas da Capela.

  • Alvarinho

Discovering the wine region of Monção e Melgaço

The wine region of Monção e Melgaço is located in the region of Vinho Verde of Minho of Portugal. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Anselmo Mendes or the Domaine Quinta da Pedra produce mainly wines white, sparkling and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Monção e Melgaço are Alvarinho, Loureiro and Albarino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Monção e Melgaço often reveals types of flavors of green apple, yeast or slate and sometimes also flavors of balsamic, yellow plum or acacia.

In the mouth of Monção e Melgaço is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 49 estates and châteaux in the of Monção e Melgaço, producing 158 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Monção e Melgaço go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Encostas da Capela

Planning a wine route in the of Monção e Melgaço? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Encostas da Capela.

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 Encostas da Capela and wines from the region

Dream job? Majestic to pay ‘vintern’ to drink wine on holiday

Wine lovers with a valid passport can apply for the Majestic ‘vintern’ scheme, launched this week and dubbed by the retailer as ‘the best summer job ever’. A three-day placement will include a visit to Quinta da Boavista vineyards in Portugal’s picturesque Douro region. Majestic said the vintern will also taste wines from its Wine Club’s Spain & Portugal Summer Case ‘in situ’, before trying the same wines back at home for comparison. It is offering £600 remuneration for three days, which it ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’

Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...

Are Bordeaux and Napa close to ‘tipping point’ on global warming? – Study

Writing in the Oeno One journal, researchers said climate data showed a significant increase in average growing season temperatures in both Napa and Bordeaux, particularly since the 1980s. So far the warmer conditions have generally contributed to better average wine quality, noted the authors, from the University of Bordeaux’s ISVV Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin and UC Davis. Yet, they questioned how long this would continue. The authors said: ‘In Napa and Bordeaux, viticulture has ...

The word of the wine: Véraison

A phase in the vegetative cycle of the vine that takes place in summer, usually in August, when the grapes change colour from green to red (for reds) or yellow (for whites). This stage heralds the beginning of ripening.