Fâmega Vinho Verde White (D.O.C.)
Portugal's best loved Vinho Verde. Refreshing, crisp with a tingly sparkle taste of apple tartness from the cool and luscious Vinho Verde DOC region in northeastern Portugal, Fâmega Vinho Verde White has a delicate citrus flavor like the fragrance of a summer garden. Pleasant and mellow this young white wine will be the perfect accompaniment to all kinds of seafood, salads, mild cheeses, as an aperitif or just by itself. The alcoholic content of Vinho Verde - about 9% to 10% - makes it the ideal natural low calorie white wine.
Case production of the winery: 88,000 cases/year. Unique Wine Company
Fact sheet: The climate has Atlantic Ocean influences. The vines were planted on granite soil and the grape varieties used were 40% Asal, 30% Avesso and 30% Pedernă. The classical method of "bica aberta" was used, where the stems are removed before the fermentation of the grape juice. The wine was settled and fermented in stainless steel vats before being bottled in March of the year following harvest.
Wine Maker: Eng. Elizabete Gonçalves Martins Balota & Nidia Fernandes Martins
Region - Vinho Verde D.O.C Region. - Amarante Sub-RegionUnique Wine Company
Reviews on several vintages of Fâmega Vinho Verde:
From The Wall Street Journal: “June 2002: “ . One of our favorites in our blind tasting was Fâmega … Close your eyes, picture a hot day and then open your eyes and read these notes: delightful, easy, lemony. Perfect for sun & seafood. Light and refreshing. Uncomplicated and fun. Laugh out loud delightful. Easy as a day at the beach …” June 2004: “… This is the one to put into the bog tub of ice, next to the beer. Many inexpensive whites taste ponderous and sweet to us under the sun. This is a delicious exception. It's almost colorless, with some spritz; very light and very refreshing; great with white, three-cheese pizza; and so informal that John closed his eyes and said: I can picture this at Shea Stadium, with a hot dog. Cold Vinho Verde (Fâmega)here. Get your cold Vinho Verde (Fâmega). Of course, John also closed his eys and pictures the Mets winning, so take this with a grain of salt. This wine is a wine simply to enjoy, not to discuss …”
From The Miami Herald, June 2005: Recommended “Vinho Verde is the ancient is the ancient, traditional wine to Portugal, made nowhere else, of grapes with names like alvarinho, loureiro, trajadura and pedernă, which even when fully ripe produce only about 11 percent alcohol instead of the usual 12 percent or more. It's still going strong while so many other European countries tear out traditional varieties to plant American-style chardonnay, merlot and such. In part that's because the Portuguese like their own stuff so much they only export 20 percent of it. Light, spritzy, even frothy, lightly sweet whit grapefruit flavors.”
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From The Wine Spectator: "...A good seafood wine. Dry and tart, but carrying enough apple and lemon flavors to make it lively and refreshing. ..."
From The Wine & Spirits Buying Guide: "... Lively, sweet fruit ripe. Peach and citrus pith clean and fresh" - BEST BUY
From Wine & Spirits Magazine by Joshua Greene: “The green hills of northwest Portugal have been home to the rich and famous of centuries past. The ornate mansions and manors scattered throughout the countryside attest to those once-heady days of international trade. Many of the homes are still owned by the families that gained their wealth five hundred years ago when Portugal's navy ruled the seas. The green hills made a green wine, youthfully tart, carried in barrels to local taverns or to the British Isles when the English lost their supply of Bordeaux. It may have been the greenness of the wine that drove the Brits inland in search of something richer, a more robust red to ship out from Porto. Perhaps if a string of Vintages like this had come along at the time, no Englishman would have ever ventured inland to develop the Port trade. Instead, they might have found such ripeness and freshness in the less-than-green wine of the coastal mountains hard to resist. … the combination of vastly improved growing techniques and tremendous investment in the cellars makes the wines of a low-yielding vintage nothing less than extraordinary. And even more abundant vintages, when grown with care at restricted yields, offer some of the best Vinho Verdes we've come across. This ancient wine has new life." " Buy Vinho Verdes: They're the best deal you'll find this summer”
From The New York Times: "... Fâmega Vinho Verde Branco. Produced in northern Portugal, primarily from grapes picked early in the harvest, before full ripeness and development of high sugar levels, ... contains a low alcohol content (9 to 10 percent); a dry, almost tart, taste, and a bit ofsprits particularly prominent in the finish. earthy taste and hints of fruit excellent accompaniment for grilled shrimps, chicken and salads laced with goat cheese."
From The Wine Enthusiast: " Crisp and refreshing fruit with inviting herbal aromas on the nose and a medium-length, honeyed finish. "
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