Mapreco Vinho Verde Rose 2020
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Wilfred
Wong
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The cherry color reveals a slightly fizzy wine that is a very fruitful rosé made from the traditional Vinho Verde white grapes. Adding a splash of red to offer flavors with notes of strawberry, cherry and berries. With just the right amount of effervescence and a medium length finish is a perennial favorite. Delicious!
This rose is great as an aperitif or with appetizers, shellfish, vegetarian dishes or snacks. More specific pairings include green salads with goat cheese and herbs, caprese of tomatoes and mozzarella or grilled vegetables.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Mapreco Vinho Verde Rosé Wine is clean, pleasing, and delicate on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This rosé wine shows red cherry and dried fruit aromas and flavors. Try it with garden-fresh, heirloom tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella topped with shredded basil leaves. (Tasted: July 26, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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2021-
Wilfred
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Mapreco is crafted by one of Portugal’s oldest and best known wineries. The innovative viticulture and winemaking are two fundamental areas for their success. They are managed by a young, dynamic, passionate and competent team that quests every day to fulfill and overcome expectations. The vines planted in their estates are growing in an integrated production system giving priority to ecological and certificated methods (soil conservation and biodiversity maintenance) that minimize the harmful side effects and the use of agro chemicals, in order to protect the environment and the human health.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
A cheerful, translucid, lemon-yellow and slightly pétillant white wine, Vinho Verde literally means ‘green wine’ and is named after the northwest Portugese region from which it originates. The ‘green’ in the name refers to the youthful state in which the wines are customarily released and consumed, not the color of the wine.
It is typically a blend of various percentages of Alvarinho, Loureiro, Trajadura, and Pedernã (Arinto). Following initial alcoholic fermentation, a natural, secondary malolactic conversion in cask produces carbon dioxide, giving Vinho Verde its charmingly light sparkle.