Wine Tasting in Portugal Category

My Favorite Portuguese Wines

Posted on February 9, 2014

Here you will find an ongoing list of my favorite Portuguese wines. Most of these wines are from the Douro River Valley of northern Portugal, but there are plenty of other regions of this great land I have yet to discover. (Alentejo, for example, is one region I’d like to explore.) Portugal is one of […]

Port wine, the nectar of the regular folk

Posted on January 26, 2014

We have champagne to thank for the evolution of what we now know as modern day port wine. In the late 17th century, champagne became known as a modern wine and was incredibly popular with the British and, of course, with the French. According to legend, a Benedictine monk, Dom Pierre Pérignon, pioneered quality changes […]