The Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva of Minho

Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva - Vinho Verde
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 458 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho

The Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva is one of the best wineries to follow in Minho.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva wines

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

The top red wines of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva

How Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of scallops in coral sauce, vegan leek and tofu quiche or bread with cheese and bacon.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva

In the mouth the red wine of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva. is a with a nice freshness.

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 white wines of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva

How Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of spaghetti with clams, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or bruschetta with mozzarella.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva

In the mouth the white wine of Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva. is a with a nice freshness.

Discover the grape variety: Goldriesling

Goldriesling blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. 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 Goldriesling can be found cultivated in these vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley.

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Discover the grape variety: Mauzac

Mauzac is a grape variety, black or white (the white one is better known), originating from the South-West. It is mainly cultivated in the vineyards of Gaillac and Limoux (where it is called blanquette), on about 5,000 hectares. mauzac has medium-sized bunches, composed of berries whose colour can vary from green to red depending on the maturity of the grapes. This grape variety likes limestone and clay-limestone soils, and it is here that it is most productive. Its white wines are fat, with little acidity and marked by aromas of ripe apple, pear, honey, quince, vanilla and violet, typical of the great sweet wines of Gaillac. mauzac also produces the famous Blanquette-de-Limoux in rural method. In this region, Mauzac is competing with Sauvignon, Chenin and Chardonnay, especially for sparkling wines which are more similar to Champagne. It is also used in some appellations such as Entre-deux-Mers, Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux, Côtes-de-Duras, Vins-de-Lavilledieu...

News about Winery J.L.Espinheira Da Silva and wines from the region

A perfect storm: Nutri-Score, alcohol and health

The situation has been developing for a long time. But the potentially explosive elements are growing in intensity and coming together as if by some invisible magnetic force. In 2011, Regulation No. 1169 (which amended earlier regulations going back to 2006) was adopted in European Parliament calling for a system to provide food nutrition information to consumers. Shortly thereafter, the French Ministry of Health instructed Santé Publique France, the national public health agency, to create a co ...

Glenfiddich owners launch House of Hazelwood collection of rare Scotch whiskies

The new range, drawn from whisky stocks laid down by the Gordons for almost a century and named after the family home in Dufftown, comprises The Charles Gordon Collection – in 2022, four whiskies priced at £3,000-4,500 per bottle – and The Legacy Collection – four whiskies priced at £950-1,450. They include the first spirit produced at the Girvan grain distillery in South Ayrshire in 1964, and a 56-year-old whisky, unusually blended as new make spirit before its maturation. ‘This is a collection ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Right bank

In Bordeaux, it refers to the vineyards located on the right bank of the Gironde and Dordogne rivers, where the Merlot grape variety is dominant. These are the appellations of Saint-Emilion, Pomerol, Fronsac, etc.

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