Quinta do Ermizio Vinho Verde 2024

Quinta do Ermizio Vinho Verde 2024The area between the Douro and the Minho rivers in Portugal has a long and storied viticultural history, dating back to antiquity. Today the northern portion of the area, known as Vinho Verde, shares many varieties and traditions with Galicia to its north. Quinta do Ermzio, in the town of Ronfe outside Guimares, is similarly old: the name dates back perhaps as far as the 12th century. The current Quinta was established in 1984 with the construction of

the juice is transferred to concrete tanks for ageing

being proof positive for the exciting potential of hybrids

close to the Rhone River

[PRESS 4 MIX • PRESS 4 RED]

The winery is 100 years-old but has only been bottling their wines for about 25 years

Dunaj (cross of Blauer Potugieser and Sankt Laurent)

with a smattering of other indigenous varieties (some of which haven't been identified)

Italian wine bureaucrats forbid this practice due to hygienic concerns — making wine in Mountain itself was too hard to keep clean

along with an alluring whiff of white pepper

they work by hand

the Senats declare this wine ‘a perfect companion for a nice day

starting in the 1990s