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Quick Facts
- Country: Portugal
- Region: Vinho Verde
- Vintage: 2017
- Bottle Volume: 75cl
- Grape Variety: Alvarinho
- ABV: 12.5%
- Wine Style: Crisp Dry White
- Food Match: Salads, Shellfish and fish
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Additional Information
To retain complete freshness of the grapes, they are hand picked and immediately, but carefully, transported to the winery. The resulting wine is intensely tropical yet fresh and citrusy with flavours of exuberant peach. A classic Alvarinho. Pair best with seafood, white fish, poultry or enjoy as an aperitif.
Albarino (Alvarinho) is a green skinned grape variety native to Galicia on the north Atlantic coast of Spain. It is very popular in the Vinho Verde wine region of Portugal, where it is known as Alvarinho.
History
Quinta de Soalheiro, located in Melgaço (the most northern point of Portugal), is protected by a range of mountains that create conditions of rainfall, temperature and sunshine hours necessary for the best ripening of the Alvarinho grapes.
This very special microclimate led João Antonio Cerdeira to plant the first Alvarinho vine in 1974 and to create, in 1982, the first Alvarinho brand in Melgaço – "Soalheiro".
