The Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia of Minho

Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia - Cimo d'Aldeia Vinho Verde Branco
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 985 of the estates of Minho.
It is located in Minho
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The Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia is one of the best wineries to follow in Minho.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Minho to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

How Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of creamy tomato squid, nanie's diced ham quiche or fried onions.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia. is a with a nice freshness.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia.

  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Loureiro
  • Azal Branco

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 red wines of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

How Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef and spice stuffed peppers, oven-baked lamb stew or duck breast with foie gras sauce.

Discover the grape variety: Loureiro

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia

How Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The word of the wine: Structure

Refers to both the structure and the overall constitution of a wine.

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News about Winery Quintas de Vila Garcia and wines from the region

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Study reveals glimpse of ancient Roman winemaking

Jars recovered from the seabed and dating back to the Roman period have offered more clues about winemaking and storage in this era, according to a study that used a mixture of analysis techniques. A combination of chemical markers, plant tissue residue and pollen analysis helped researchers to build a picture about the possible contents of three amphorae ‘wine jars’ discovered near the coastal town of San Felice Circeo, around 90km south-east of Rome. ‘The evidence suggests the amphorae were us ...

Plan for major English winery development in Kent blocked

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The word of the wine: Structure

Refers to both the structure and the overall constitution of a wine.

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