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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 […]
The welcome surprise at the Wine Bloggers’ Conference #wbc12…Portuguese wines!
Posted on September 4, 2012 3 Comments
Portuguese wines were a huge surprise to me the first time I tried them and continue to be whenever I initiate others into this small but grand wine world of Portuguese wines. Portugal has more to offer than just Port wines, they have amazing still wines a.k.a regular wines, that will blow you away! Having […]
Quinta do Vesuvio Estate of Symington Family Estates in Douro, Portugal
Posted on October 6, 2011
It is amazing how wines are made in this region of the world. These are “lagares” where the grapes are destemmed, pumped into these huge lake like things, everyone walks over them, extracting the best must. Then they break the seal or sombrero- hat with a long stick and collect the juice. What a great […]
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