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Showing posts with label Portuguese grapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portuguese grapes. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

A Portuguese Surprise

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The Casa Ermelinda Freitas winery was founded in 1920 in the southern reaches of Portugal. Today's owner, Leonor Freitas , keeps the win...
Monday, April 29, 2024

A Light And Breezy Rose From Portugal

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Espiral Vinho Verde Rosé Blend is a non-vintage pink wine, about which I know little more. I'm sure there are Portuguese grapes in this ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Make It Mateus

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Mateus Dry Rosé is Portugal's leading wine export. Its makers claim that a Mateus wine is sold every 38 minutes around the world. Many p...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Warre's Fine White Porto

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The Symington family calls their Warre's label "the original British Port House."  Pulling grapes from several superb quinta...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Miles Madeira - A Favorite Wine Of Founding Fathers

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Madeira was the wine of choice for many of America's founding fathers.  John Hancock and the other representatives of the 13 colonies,...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Vinho Verde Comes In Pink, Too

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The Vinho Verde wine region in northern Portugal is home to some of the best white wines this side of Albariño.  Vinho Verde means, "...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Vinho Verde: Portugal's Top White Wine Region

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The Vinho Verde wine region in northern Portugal is home to some of the best white wines this side of Albariño.  Vinho Verde means, "...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Pleasure From Portugal: Vinho Verde Wine

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The Vinho Verde wine region in northern Portugal is home to some of the best white wines this side of Albariño.  Vinho Verde means, "...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Green Wine For The Holidays

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The Vinho Verde wine region in northern Portugal is home to some of the best white wines this side of Albariño.  Vinho Verde means, "...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Warre's Ports, Ruby And White

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The Symington family calls their Warre's label "the original British Port House."  Pulling grapes from several superb quinta...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Portuguese Still Wine: Incredible Douro

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Portuguese wine is booming and making a big comeback after a period of decline.  James Halliwell writes on Harper's UK that the growt...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Dow's Port

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Before the Port season slips away, here's a 2012 Vintage Port you should try.  Of course, it's always Port season for some, but th...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Great Red Wine Pairing With Indian Food

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This is for everyone who loves Indian food, but hates the wine lists.  There's a place that gets what sort of wines go with spicy, fla...
Monday, March 12, 2018

A Good Night For Port

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"It’s a good night for Port," my wife said.  The brutal Southern California winter had its teeth in us, with the overnight low e...
Friday, November 3, 2017

Portugal Wine: Prats + Symington Chryseia

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Portugal's Douro Valley is one of the most distinctive terroirs in the wide, wide world of wine. Prats and Symington grow grapes and ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

"Surprise Me"

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A good wine dealer is a great thing to have. I can simply tell Roberto at Wine Expo in Santa Monica how I feel and he always seems to ha...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Locations Wine: P Is For Portugal

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Locations is an experiment of place for winemaker Dave Phinney , of Orin Swift fame. It's his attempt at making wine a country-wide ef...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Portuguese Wine: Vinho Verde

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Vinho Verde is the region, not a grape or a style of wine. It's in the northwest corner of Portugal. It's as if you’re saying, &qu...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Albarino By Another Name, From Another Place

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Here is a different stroke from the Vinho Verde appellation of Portugal. The estate,  Quinta da Aveleda , has vineyards, of course, but th...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Summer Wine: Portugal's Vinho Verde

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Vinho Verde is the region, not a grape or a style of wine. It's in the northwest corner of Portugal. It's as if you're saying,...