Off Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Aliança's Casal Mendes brand: high-volume off-dry Vinho Verde from the Caves Aliança umbrella, distinct from the eponymous Aliança Vinho Verde label.
Cuvées
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Rustic
Anselmo Mendes' Minho red Pardusco: native Vinhão-Pedral blend with sour cherry and wild-herb register. The serious tinto verde reading from the Alvarinho master.
Aphros Vinhão
4.5
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Rustic
Biodynamic Vinhão from Refoios do Lima: deep ink-purple, light-bodied, racy red-fruit register. The native tinto verde tradition done seriously.
Off Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
The high-volume Casal Garcia Vinho Verde white: low-alcohol, light spritz, off-dry frame. The most exported Vinho Verde in the world.
Off Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
The pink half of the Casal Garcia umbrella: native red-grape rose with strawberry and watermelon aromatics and a light off-dry spritz.
Off Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Sogrape's high-volume Gazela Vinho Verde: low-alcohol, off-dry, light spritz. The export-market reference Vinho Verde alongside Casal Garcia.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Rustic
Niepoort's reading of the native tinto verde: inky purple, light-bodied, racy. The Vinhão half of the Docil pair.
Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Quinta da Lixa's classic Vinho Verde blend: Loureiro-Arinto-Trajadura over a racy frame, sold widely as the everyday Vinho Verde.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Quinta da Lixa's Touriga Nacional rosé: strawberry and redcurrant aromatics from the Douro grape replanted in the Sousa sub-region. Dry, racy, summer.
Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Quinta de Lourosa's Loureiro-Arinto blend from the Sousa sub-region near Lousada: classic crisp Vinho Verde with bay-leaf lift.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Refreshing
Light, low-alcohol red Vinho Verde from Vinhao. Tart cherry and violet aromatics with a soft spritz, best served chilled, the classic Minho summer red.