Category: Recipes

Pairing Wine with Food

One of the key principles behind the best pairing is to understand both the food you are serving and the wine, by analysing their basic components in order to enhance your dining experience. You can pair them as you wish, by textures, flavours or aromas and even pairings by colours can be amazing and beautiful (Raza rosé-salmon).

“Bordalesa” style Lamprey – An excellence traditional dish from the gastronomy of the Minho

Known for its centenary old fishing tradition, the Minho region is proud of its years of artisanal fishing. These ancestral constructions are purported to be of Roman origin and by others as originating from the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries. They emerge along the river in the direction of the current and block the way to lamprey, shad, trout and other migratory species that in time are launched upstream.

Bacalhau com todos (Codfish with all)

In this Christmas recipe, which represents the typical Portuguese Christmas, we join with this dish the intensity, sharing and the familiar flavour that our Avesso / Alvarinho wine so well symbolizes! Cooks in: 30 minutesServes: 4 persons INGREDIENTS 4 onions 400g of potatoes 4 carrots 4 cloves of garlic 1 bay leaf 4 eggs 4 slices […]

Which Vinho Verde wines pair with fish and seafood?

If there is a season where fish and shellfish gain even more relevance, it is in the summer! And Vinho Verde wine fits like a glove in the freshest menus of this season. Here is a careful selection of aromas that are more suitable for that lunch or dinner you have in mind.

Spaghetti with prawns

This is a dish that joins the wine and the sea. For the autumn days we bring some summer, in a more complex and cozy dish. Our Avesso wine, which is like saying “the opposite of what it should be” is everything we want it to be, elegant and harmonious, perfectly accompanying this dish!