Minho/Vinho Verde, Transmontano

Question 1

Where are Minho/Vinho Verde in Portugal?

Answer 1

NW Corner

Question 2

How are Minho/Vinho Verde related?

Answer 2

Share exact geographical boundaries

• Minho is IGP
• Vinho Verde is DOP

Question 3

Climate of Minho/Vinho Verde

Answer 3

• cool, rainy

- Atlantic influenced

Question 4

What vine disease can be a problem due to climate in Minho/Vinho Verde? What traditional method combated this?

Answer 4

Grey rot during damp growing season

• traditional high vine training system
• -> enforcado

Question 5

what is enforcado?

Answer 5

traditional vine training system in Minho/Vinho Verde

• vines grow up tree trunks, telephone poles, and stakes
• kept vines high, creating overhead canopy
• lessened chance of fungal disease
• other crops grown beneath

Question 6

Is enforcado still used in Vinho Verde/Minho?

Answer 6

Not really

• displaced by modern trellising systems
• fewer than 10% vines trained this way

Question 7

What is the largest DOP in Portugal?

Answer 7

Vinho Verde

15% nations total vineyard acreage

Question 8

Where are Vinho Verde’s limits

Answer 8

From Oporto to the Spanish border (Minho River)

Question 9

Soil in Vinho Verde

Answer 9

gentle slopes of shallow granitic soil

-steeper terraces further unland

Question 10

Most planted white grape in Vinho Verde?

Answer 10

Loureiro

-primary component of traditional Vinho Verde blends

Question 11

Main grapes of Vinho Verde white blends?

Answer 11

Loureiro - primary component

• Trajadura (Treixadura)
• Avesso
• Pedernã (Arinto)
• Alvarinho

Question 12

How is Alvarinho typically bottled in Portugal

Answer 12

Varietally

-near northern town of Monção, directly across Minho river from Candado do Tea subregion of Rias Baixas

Question 13

Best subregion for quality Alvarinho?

Answer 13

monção e melgaço

Question 14

What grapes are used for red and rosato wines in Vinho Verde?

Answer 14

Vinhão (teinturier)
Espadeiro
Borraçal
Alvarelhão

Question 15

How does slight sparkle (pétillant) get into white and reds of Vinho Verde?

Answer 15

White - generally injected with CO2 before bottling

Red - Malolactic fermentation takes place in bottle

Question 16

What DOP resides within Minho IGP?

Answer 16

Vinho Verde DOP

Question 17

Where is Transmontano IGP located?

Answer 17

• East of Minho, along Spanish border

- North of Duriense

Question 18

What DOP is within Transmontano IGP?

Answer 18

Trás-os-Montes DOP

Question 19

3 subregions of Trás-os-Montes DOP?

Answer 19

• Chaves
• Valpaços
• Planalto Mirandés

(non-contiguous)

Question 20

Climate and terrain of Transmontano IGP?

Answer 20

dry, hot, continental

mountainous

Question 21

Important red grapes of Transmontano IGP

Answer 21

Touriga Nacional
Tinta Roriz
Bastardo (Trousseau) 
Touriga Francesa
Trincadeira

Question 22

Most planted white grapes in Transmontano IGP

Answer 22

Fernão Pires
Síria
Viosinho
Gouveio
Malvasia Fina
Rabigato

Question 23

What two DOPs were once included in Transmontano IGP? Why did this change?

Answer 23

Douro and Porto DOP

Changed with creation of Duriense IGP in 2006