The Winery Moinas of Monção e Melgaço of Minho

Winery Moinas - Vinho Verde
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Minho.
It is located in Monção e Melgaço in the region of Minho

The Winery Moinas is one of the best wineries to follow in Monção e Melgaço.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Monção e Melgaço to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Moinas wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Moinas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Moinas

How Winery Moinas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of cuttlefish in parsley sauce, nanie's diced ham quiche or pizza-style appetizer croissants.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Moinas

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5

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.

The top red wines of Winery Moinas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Moinas

How Winery Moinas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of boeuf en daube, italian pasta salad or shoulder of lamb in a crust.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Moinas

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Moinas. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Moinas

  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional

Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Moinas

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 Moinas.

Discover the grape variety: Seyval blanc

A relative of the Saint Pepin, this direct-producing hybrid is the result of an interspecific cross between 5656 Seibel and Ray d'Or (4986 Seibel) obtained in 1921 by the Seyve-Villard company, formerly based in Saint Vallier (Drôme). Seyval blanc is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A. It can be found in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Switzerland, etc. It is practically non-existent in France and is in danger of disappearing.

News about Winery Moinas 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 ...

New Zealand vineyards work towards achieving carbon neutrality

The industry launched a certification programme called Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand (SWNZ) back in 1995. It now covers 1,840 vineyards and 310 wineries. Growers can only achieve SWNZ certification by passing stringent tests within six key areas: water, waste, pest and disease control, soil, climate change and people. They must subject themselves to regular audits conducted by an independent company, which assesses the overall sustainability of their operations and verifies that they are m ...

International Beaujolais Nouveau Day

Although Cru Beaujolais has been having its moment in the sun for a few years now, its younger, lighter-bodied ‘nouveau’ cousin is coming back into its own. How Beaujolais Nouveau Day started The tradition of Beaujolais Nouveau dates back to the 1800s. Winemakers would bottle their just-fermented wine, produced from grapes harvested just a few months prior, an unusually tight timeframe in winemaking terms. This occasion called for a massive celebration among Beaujolais-based vigneron ...

The word of the wine: Fruity

A wine whose nose is first characterized by aromas reminiscent of the world of fruit. A wine to be drunk young is essentially fruity, but all wines offer this type of aroma in the first place, which can evolve over time, from the scent of fresh fruit to cooked, stewed, candied or brandied fruit.