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Aloxe-Corton Domaine Latour 2011
We have the following theory: to drink a great French wine, we have to spend a lot of money. This Pinot Noir is a nice wine, but it is just "nice". The aroma is earthy and fine. In the mouth it is soft and velvety. A little body with faint taste and a short finish....
Casa Agricola Horácio Simões
Quinta do Anjo, Palmela "If the weather allows, we will visit the vineyards", those were the words I remembered by Teresa Barrigas, and on the day before our visit, it rained intensely, I had the exact notion that it would not be possible, which was confirmed. On the...
Quinta do Espírito Santo Reserva 2012
This wine did very well in this harvest. Made with "Tinta Roriz" and "Castelão", it is a very intense and full wine, with red fruit in very intense compote, protected with notes of barrel. Everything very well integrated and balanced. A powerful wine, tasty, to which...
Quinta do Escudial 2015
This small producer very close to "Seia", in the foothills of "Serra da Estrela", has some peculiarities, and deserves to be known. One of these peculiarities is that they do not use wood to age wines. Saying that, at least in whites, can be a blessing. Citrus aroma,...
Terras do Demo 2015
This is a sparkling wine that always goes well with the food (light). Very smooth, tasty, fruity and gastronomic. Made only of fine "Malvasia" (caste characteristic of this region), it is a wine that edition after edition is the paradigm of good value for money....
Relics Tasting: “Old? rags are the old!”
On March 17th, Wine4People (W4P) joined at the house of Manuel Brás (MB) for our usual monthly tasting, this time a "Relics Tasting". Besides Manuel, there were also Paulo Fernando (PF), Rui Brás (RB) and myself, Gil Pinto (GP) - "armed" with the corkscrew, a...
Quinta da Manoella Vinhas Velhas 2013
From vineyards with over 100 years old, "Jorge Serôdio Borges" and "Sandra Tavares da Silva" have been making this wine since 2009. The aroma of red fruit is exhilarating. In the mouth it is intense, tasty and full bodied, but it seems that there is some imbalance:...
Gloria Reynolds Art & Tradition 2005
There are not many "aristocratic" wines in Portugal. This is one of them. A fine wine, not too much body, but with great balance. The aroma denotes its age and evolution, in a good way. In the mouth it does not disappoint, it is strong and in shape. The end is not...
Gloria Reynolds Art & Tradition 2014
Here we have a producer from the region of "Portalegre" (Arronches) often forgotten. This white top of the range from this house surprises by the lightness. A very fruity and floral aroma in the mouth remains very fruity but very light ... so that this lightness...
Flor de Penalva 2015
I even like the red very much, I was quite disappointed with this white. It is a brand that the "Adega Cooperativa de Penalva do Castelo" (known for making "serious wines") makes for a commercial distributor. And then it's that decoy: the wine costs 8 or 9 euros, and...