The Winery Salvador is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Salvador wines in Minho among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Salvador 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 Salvador wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Salvador wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of easy seafood gratin, goat cheese and bacon quiche or chorizo rillettes.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Salvador. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, tropical or citrus and sometimes also flavors of apples, peach or green apple. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Salvador. 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 Salvador wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Salvador. often reveals types of flavors of cream, citrus or apples and sometimes also flavors of minerality, strawberries or raspberry.
How Winery Salvador wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of borscht (russia), quick couscous or duck with orange.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Salvador. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Salvador. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
A method of making certain sparkling wines such as blanquette de Limoux, sparkling gaillac or clairette de Die, which consists of a second fermentation in the bottle based on natural sugars and yeasts naturally brought by the grapes (unlike the méthode champenoise, which requires the addition of tirage liquor).
How Winery Salvador wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of rabbit stew the old fashioned way, oven-baked salmon mozzarella sandwiches or parsley knives.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Salvador. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
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 Salvador.
Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
