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.
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.
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 shrimp in red sauce, quiche without eggs or steamed carrots with saffron.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Via Latina. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, grapefruit or tropical and sometimes also flavors of citrus, apples or peach. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Via Latina. 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 Via Latina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
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.
How Winery Via Latina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Via Latina. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Action consisting of draining the wine from a vat of red wine (free-run wine), the marc then being pressed to obtain the press wine.
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 roast beef in a crust (onions & mustard), lamb crumble with oregano and feta cheese or rabbit with tomato.
In the mouth the red wine of Winery Via Latina. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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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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.
