Broadbent Vinho Verde, Portugal

Indicative blend: 50% Loureiro, 40% Trajadura, 10% Pederna ( Arinto)

Average Price $9 (USD)
(Approx, ex-tax, all vintages)

Search Rank 9232 What is search rank?
Over all vintages, this was the 9232nd most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year. Search rank last month: 9557th

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• > Vinho Verde

• Vinho Verde wine region

  Vinho Verde is a well-known DOC in the Minho region of north-western Portugal. Each year it is responsible for vast quantities of straw-yellow, light-bodied, tangily tart wines produced from many thousands of smallholdings throughout the region. And amid the wash of white wine is the faint glimmer of ruby-tinged red Vinho Verde, relatively hard to come by outside Portugal, but worth the effort.

  A quantity of the wines made here are so fresh and youthful that they earn the moniker verde ('green'), which applies even to the reds. Although not sufficiently effervescent to be officially classed as sparkling wines, much white Vinho Verde has an obvious petillance. They are most often based on such classic Portuguese white-wine grapes as Arinto, Loureiro and ... more

• Minho wine region

  Minho is Portugal's northernmost wine region, located on the Atlantic coast just south of Spanish Galicia. This area of coastline is known as the Costa Verde (Green Coast), due to the lush countryside which lies just inland. It occupies a roughly rectangular area about 30 miles (50km) wide by 60 miles (100km) long, to the north and east of Porto, Portugal's second-largest city.

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