Portugal Travel Guía

The north region of Portugal, more specifically Minho, is the cradle of one of the products most typical of the country, a liquor known as Vinho Verde. This region is provided with nearly 35.000 hectares of vineyards that produce the variety of grape that is used for the making of this genuine wine, turning in the second producing region of this liquor in the country. Some houses are already known in the whole world, like Country house García, Mateus or Aveleda. The geographical and climatic Minho characteristics turn it into suitable stage for the cultivation of the grape, forming this way a scenery composed by hundreds of vineyards that spread on both sides of the river Douro.

Vinho Verde is characterized by its freshness and its balanced acidity. With sweet and delicate aroma, it is a young wine, lightly gaseous and with fruity dyes. It is ideal for the accompaniment of fish, very typical food in the coastal zones of the country. There must make use cold, like white wine that is.

This wine receives its name, not precisely for its color, since it tends to yellow tones, but it is named this way due to the intense green color that covers the vineyards that provide the fruit of that this one is born. Its reputation every is major, and it even has been included inside the list of the 100 best wines of the world as the magazine Weinwirtschaft, specialized in the world vinícola.

Undoubtedly it is a wine easy to take, which pleases to almost all the palates, soft and that will do the delights of the one who proves it. Of course, in your trip to Portugal it is of obligation to look at least at a glass of this delightful wine, better if you accompany it of a good Portuguese traditional meal. You will not have difficulty of finding places where to be able to ask for a glass of Vinho Verde, since it is much extended throughout the country. Also, another advantage of this one, the fact is that it turns out to be the same way very "light" for the pocket, since it is not an excessively expensive wine.