Don't wait for spring to drink Portugal's 'green wine' – there are plenty of styles worthy of a place at the table even in winter. Above, the Lima River, which gives its name to one of Vinho Verde's nine subregions (© Fabrice Demoulin – CVRVV).
There is a deeply held view that all Vinho Verde wines are white, light, relatively low in alcohol, possibly not quite dry, with a slight spritz. The only truth in this view is that they are mostly white: only 20% of 95 million litres of wine produced annually in this region is red or rosé. Vinho...