Aromas
Jasmine
Peach
Lemon
Pairs With
Lobster
Sea bassExpressões Alvarinho
Anselmo Mendes
Monção e Melgaço (DOC Vinho Verde)
9 months in oak. 24 in bottle. Worth every one.
On every bottle
Every bottle comes with a card
One side tells you what to eat with it and what it tastes like. The other side is empty — write a note and the bottle becomes a present.
The front
What to eat with it
Two dishes that work with this wine, two flavours you'll notice, and the right temperature to pour it. No wine-speak.
The back
Room for your note
Lines for a name, a few words and your signature. Have it sent straight to someone and they get a card you wrote, not a packing slip.
Included with every bottle.
Profile
Occasion
Grape
Alvarinho
ABV
12.5%
Temp
12–14°C
Drink
2025–2033
Bottle
75 cl
Why it's on our shelf
Expressões is what happens when Anselmo Mendes decides to see how far Alvarinho can go. Only 6,000 bottles, from the best parcels across all eight soil plots of Quinta da Torre, fermented and aged in used 400L French oak — not for oak flavour, but for texture. Then 24 months in bottle before release. The 2021 got 94 from Robert Parker, but that's almost beside the point. What makes this wine interesting is that it sits somewhere between serious white Burgundy and something entirely Portuguese: the oak never dominates, the Alvarinho's acidity and aromatic precision always win.
— Berthe & Moritz
Critic scores
Parker
94/100
Vivino
4.1/5
Suckling
92/100
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