The Winery Quinta do Feital is one of the world's great estates. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Quinta do Feital wines in Minho among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Quinta do Feital 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 Quinta do Feital wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Quinta do Feital 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 with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or beet and goat aperitif verrines.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Quinta do Feital. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, citrus fruit or vegetal. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Quinta do Feital. is a powerful 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.
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 Quinta do Feital.
A wine grape variety of the INRA-Resdur1 series with polygenic resistance (two genes for mildew and powdery mildew have been identified), resulting from an interspecific cross between Villaris and Mtp 3159-2-12 (for the latter, one of its parents is Vitis rotundifolia, which is resistant to Pierce's disease, mildew, grey rot, etc.). Little multiplied, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.
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Notes reminiscent of aromatic Mediterranean herbs such as thyme or rosemary, found in many southern wines.
