White Wine

Anselmo Mendes

Curtimenta 2022, 75cl

Vinhos Verdes DOC

Anselmo Mendes

type of wine
White wine made from Alvarinho grapes exclusively produced in Monção and Melgaço. Grapes with high levels of acidity and good maturation, coming from older vines over 14 years old. It is an old-fashioned wine, extracting more color and tannins through contact with the skins during winemaking. A different and unique way of exploring the potential of the Alvarinho variety to the full.

winemaking
Grapes picked by hand in small boxes and transported to the cellar in a short time. Pellicular maceration followed by fermentation with the skins for a few hours. Fermentation ends in used 400 liter French oak barrels. In the same barrels it undergoes bâtonnage for 9 months on total lees. Aged for 12 months in bottle.

Name
DOC Vinho Verde Alvarinho, Monção and Melgaço

Production (Production) 4,000 bottles
pH 3.47 Total Acidity 6.1g/L

Acceptable storage time 15 years

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Anselmo Mendes

Anselmo Mendes was born and grew up in Monção. It was then, as a child, that he became acquainted with the culture of the vine and wine production. The Alvarinho variety, and its wine produced there, immediately became a part of his life, to the extent that, today, Anselmo Mendes and Alvarinho are synonymous.

He graduated in Agro-Industrial Engineering in 1987, at the Higher Education Institute of the Technical University of Lisbon, and post-graduated in Oenology at the Catholic University six years later.

Address

Anselmo Mendes Vinhos, Lda.
Zona Industrial de Penso, Lote 2
4960-310 Melgaço
Portugal