
Casal Garcia Vinho Verde Rosé
Style Rosé Country Portugal
Price $8
Vintage tasted NV
Grapes Vinhão, Azal, Borracal
Website www.casalgarcia.comOverview This year the Vinho Verde rosé from
Casal Garcia joins its more traditional
white wine cousin as a blind taster
favorite. And while sparkling rosés
can get a bad reputation (at least at
lower price points), this wine
suggests that that’s an unfair
stereotype: fuller and fruitier than a
white, it’s still just as dry, refreshing,
and food friendly as any traditional
Vinho Verde. We’d suggest using it
to accompany slightly heftier dishes,
or as a wonderful partner to fruit at
a picnic.
Nose The raspberry and strawberry
aromas, while intense, are balanced
a bit by citrus.
Mouth That classic Vinho Verde
prickle always makes us smile. It cuts
the fruit here wonderfully, as does
the acidity—though our acid-craving
blind tasters suggested it could use
even more on that front.