The Winery Via Latina of Minho

Winery Via Latina - Vinho Verde Branco
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 34 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho

The Winery Via Latina is one of the world's great estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Via Latina wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Via Latina

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Via Latina

How Winery Via Latina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of seafood, chorizo and chicken paella from patou, quiche without pastry or salted muffins with bacon and grated cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Via Latina

On the nose the white wine of Winery Via Latina. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, grass or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, citrus fruit or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Via Latina. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Via Latina

  • 2018With an average score of 4.13/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.05/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Loureiro
  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Trajadura
  • Albariño
  • 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.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Via Latina

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Via Latina

How Winery Via Latina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Via Latina

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Via Latina. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or red fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Via Latina

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

Discover the grape variety: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

The top pink wines of Winery Via Latina

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Via Latina

How Winery Via Latina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Via Latina

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Via Latina. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Via Latina

  • 2019With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.51/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.49/5

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

  • Espadeiro

The word of the wine: Sweet

Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.

The top red wines of Winery Via Latina

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Via Latina

How Winery Via Latina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef fashion, stuffed zucchini with merguez, beef and spices or duck leg confit in white wine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Via Latina

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Via Latina. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Via Latina

  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.13/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Vinhão

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Via Latina

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 Via Latina.

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.

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The word of the wine: Sweet

Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.

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