Anselmo Mendes Alvarinho Contacto 2022

€ 16.21

A lemon yellow, elegant aromatic dry white wine, a delicate nose with floral and mineral hints. Full in the mouth with some floral notes, lime,

salty and wet stone, soft, dry and complex. A smooth white wine with a fresh, long and very mineral aftertaste.

Hard to resist !

Food-Pairing

Ideal with grilled oily fish dishes such as salmon and seafood, oysters or lobster au gratin, roasted white meat dishes such as salad chicken with almonds. Duck & Thon. Also delicious with asparagus in butter sauce

Grapes: 100% Alvarinho

The Alvarinho, called Albariño in Spain, is a white grape variety. In the region of Vinho Verde, the grape is the most important, but also in Rias Baixas (Galicia) good wines are produced. The grape has a thick skin and a reasonable yield. The alcohol content of the wines is quite high. The wines have fruity aromas where apple usually has the upper hand. The grape likes a soil of slate or granite

Grapes come from vineyards along the River Minho, at low altitudes, with a high content of pebbles in the soil. All grapes are deprived and receive a short maceration, followed by a long fermentation at low temperatures of 14 to 18ºC in stainless steel tanks. Finally, the wine ages for 3 months on its lees with periodic battonages.

Alcoholcontent

12,5% vol

pH: 3,33

Store & Serve

Serve at 6 - 8 ºC. To drink from the second half of 2021. To drink up to 6 years after harvest year