Wine and food experiences in Vinho Verde

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What Vinho Verde eats and drinks

The food and wine pairings our editors chose for Vinho Verde, the dishes you are most likely to meet on a tasting or at lunch.

• Alvarinho Reserva with arroz de mariscoArroz de marisco is the Porto and Minho coast's tomato-based seafood rice with lobster, langoustines, mussels, clams and white fish, served wet and...Read the pairing →
• Loureiro with caldo verdeCaldo verde is the canonical Minho soup of finely shredded couve galega kale in a potato-thickened broth with sliced chouriço and a thread of olive...Read the pairing →
• Vinhão tinto verde with francesinhaFrancesinha is the Porto-born hot sandwich of cured meats, linguiça and steak under melted cheese, drowned in a beer-and-tomato sauce often spiked ...Read the pairing →
• Sparkling Alvarinho with bolinhos de bacalhauBolinhos de bacalhau (also called pastéis de bacalhau in Lisbon) are the deep-fried cod-and-potato croquettes that anchor any Porto petisco table.Read the pairing →
• Loureiro pet-nat with sandes de pernilSandes de pernil is the Porto ham-leg sandwich on a crusty papo-seco roll, the city's late-night and post-football staple. An ancestral-method Lour...Read the pairing →
• Orange Curtimenta with tripas à moda do PortoTripas à moda do Porto is the city's namesake stew of tripe with white beans, chouriço, presunto and carrots that earned Porto its tripeiro nickname.Read the pairing →

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