Casal Garcia Rosé is the perfect Labor Day wine.

Casal Garcia Rosé

Vinho Verde wine has a very light, somewhat fizzy and effervescent wine the color of strawberries, and it’s a bit fruity. a perfect Labor Day wine.

Ted Scheffler

August 23, 2019

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Many wine drinkers are familiar with Vinho Verde, which is a white wine from Portugal that has been produced for more than 2,000 years.

Contrary to what many people say, Vinho Verde does not mean “green wine”; Verde refers to it being a young wine. Vinho Verde does normally have a slight green tint to it however, and it’s an easy-drinking, low alcohol wine.

Recently, I tasted my first Rosé Vinho Verde wine from a producer called Casal Garcia and I really like it—especially the low price: $9.99.

This is a very light, somewhat fizzy and effervescent wine the color of strawberries. The wine is quite fruity, with the taste of watermelon, raspberries, and strawberries—a tad on the sweet side but with good acidity. It’s made from Vinhão, Azal, and Borracal grapes.

As I mentioned, it’s low in alcohol (9.5 percent), which makes it a nice choice for sipping in hot weather—a perfect Labor Day wine.

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Ted Scheffler

Originally trained as an anthropologist, Ted Scheffler is a seasoned food, wine, and travel writer based in Utah. He loves cooking, skiing, music, and reading, and spends an inordinate amount of time tending to his ever-growing herd of guitars and amplifiers. Ted is also the author of the Utah Bites newsletter, which is published in partnership with Utah Stories. Before moving to Utah, Ted lived in New York City, and numerous states in the US, as well as in various countries overseas, Spain, Japan, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. He earned a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research.