Grapes

Alvarinho
The Alvarinho grape, it’s an high quality grape, indigenous to the Monção and Melgaço sub-region.
With the Alvarinho grape are produced the more notable wines of the Region. The most noble of the white Portuguese grapes creates an high quality wine. Nowadays it is grown in different Portuguese regions and it even spread to various countries around the world, but still, it’s within the Monção and Melgaço sub-region that it reaches it’s highest potencial and reveals it self as world renowned white grape variety. A low productivity and rustic variety, creates wines the differ from the others due to its balance, citric colour, light and fresh flavor, fruity aromas, a one of a kind grape.

Trajadura
Quality white grape variety, originally from the sub-region of Monção and Melgaço where it has great importance, also recommended for most of the delimited region.
It’s a productive variety in great cultivating widespread and it gives birth to tasty wines with delicate and lightly pronounced aromasIt’s a productive variety in great cultivating widespread and it gives birth to tasty wines with delicate and lightly pronounced aromas.

Alvarelhão
Qualityy red grape variety, recommended in the sub-region og Monção and Melgaço where it’s strongly cultivated.
It creates ruby red and light ruby red tasty wines with delicate and harmonious aromas.

Pedral
Quality red grape variety, recommended in the sub-region of Monção and Melgaço where it’s strongly cultivated.
Productive and rustic. It gives birth to ruby red and light ruby red wines full of taste and harmonious aromas.

Vinhão
Quality red grae variety, recommended in the entire delimited region. Being the only red grape variety of the whole region it’s productive and mostly widespread in the region.
It gives bith to burgundy red wine, harmonious, vinus aroma, rich and full-bodied flavor.