Quinta de Chocapalha Arinto 2018
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Bright lemon yellow in color with a freshly aromatic nose of citrus and tropical fruits, Quinta de Chocapalha Arinto boasts lively acidity and a lingering finish.
Pairs well with fresh salads, grilled white fish, and roasted chicken.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Arinto is unoaked, very dry and comes in at 12.5% alcohol. Sensually textured, lively and fresh, this just dances across the palate. It has sappy and succulent fruit just now—it was only in bottle a few months when seen—but it should evolve nicely with time and acquire more complexity. You might not expect this relatively delicate and fresh white to age well, but Arinto does age, and the winery has a good track record. It might even do better than anticipated. It not only holds, but it develops and acquires complexity. Let's say this is optimistic, but I don't expect to be disappointed on this understated white. There were 31,317 bottles produced, plus 213 magnums.
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Lisboa is the home of Arinto, and in this wine it shines with complete freshness and crispness. The vivacious character of the wine is refreshing; it just needs a few months to settle down. So drink from 2020. Best Buy.
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This wine is fleshy and juicy, with clean, ripe peach flavors sustained by pale mineral tannins.Best Buy
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A white Portugese variety documented mainly along coastal vineyards surrounding Bucelas and Lisbon, Arinto shows marked citrus qualities with more stone fruit as it ages. Somm Secret—When a blending ingredient in Vinho Verde, it is called Pedernã.
Best known for intense, impressive and age-worthy fortified wines, Portugal relies almost exclusively on its many indigenous grape varieties. Bordering Spain to its north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean on its west and south coasts, this is a land where tradition reigns supreme, due to its relative geographical and, for much of the 20th century, political isolation. A long and narrow but small country, Portugal claims considerable diversity in climate and wine styles, with milder weather in the north and significantly more rainfall near the coast.
While Port (named after its city of Oporto on the Atlantic Coast at the end of the Douro Valley), made Portugal famous, Portugal is also an excellent source of dry red and white Portuguese wines of various styles.
The Douro Valley produces full-bodied and concentrated dry red Portuguese wines made from the same set of grape varieties used for Port, which include Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (Spain’s Tempranillo), Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Cão, among a long list of others in minor proportions.
Other dry Portuguese wines include the tart, slightly effervescent Vinho Verde white wine, made in the north, and the bright, elegant reds and whites of the Dão as well as the bold, and fruit-driven reds and whites of the southern, Alentejo.
The nation’s other important fortified wine, Madeira, is produced on the eponymous island off the North African coast.