The Winery Quinta de Pacos of Minho

Winery Quinta de Pacos - Casa de Paços Arinto
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 86 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho

The Winery Quinta de Pacos is one of the world's great estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Quinta de Pacos wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Quinta de Pacos

How Winery Quinta de Pacos wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of mussels with beer, mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche or boquerones anchovies in vinegar.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos

On the nose the white wine of Winery Quinta de Pacos. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tree fruit or earth. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Quinta de Pacos. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos

  • 2010With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.87/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos.

  • Loureiro
  • Alvarinho
  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Fernao Pires
  • Moscatel Galego

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 pink wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Quinta de Pacos

How Winery Quinta de Pacos wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos

  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Quinta de Pacos.

  • 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 Quinta de Pacos

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 de Pacos.

Discover the grape variety: Fernao Pires

In Portugal, it is one of the most planted white grape varieties, and we have found it to be very similar to the torrontés grown in Spain (Galicia). It can be found in Australia and South Africa, but is almost unknown in France.

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The word of the wine: Passerillage

Concentration of the grape by drying out, under the influence of wind or sun, as opposed to botrytisation, which is the concentration obtained by the development of the "noble rot" for which Botrytis cinerea is responsible. The word is mainly used for sweet wines.

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