Quinta do Crasto Touriga Nacional

QUINTA DO VALE MEÃO 2010

DO Douro, Red, 2010, 94 Points

Touriga Nacional. Granada intenso e violáceo. Retinto. Bergamota, violeta, pinhal, frutos silvestres vivos, matos de esteva, madeira tostada ideal. Denso, cremoso, com sucrosidade e auto-suficiência. Internacional e superior.
A: 14,5%
E: Manuel Lobo
P: Quinta do Crasto
Awards: Silver 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
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WHAT DO INTERNATIONAL WINE BUYERS KNOW ABOUT PORTUGAL?

Alexandre Relvas Jr. from promising Herdade de S. Miguel in Alentejo, told me, on our way to Mondial Bruxelles, held this year in Bratislava, that he and his team are travelling big time in order to increase export market share. Alexandre is a young and conscious winemaker/marketeer/salesman/owner’s son. His words show apprehension, since the Portuguese share of wine shelve worldwide is losing to other producing countries such as Spain (7 labels against 70 in countries such as Finland). It is true that major wine consuming countries are buying more bulk and less bottled, according to Rabobank, but the lack of a Portuguese trend and desirable demand from consumers and buyers worldwide is real. This has been going on for more than a decade. And I don’t see a breakthrough while ViniPortugal keeps focusing on useless and budget wine buying countries such as England or Germany. For some time now, and without any positive feedback – a normal conclusion being my natural born stupidity – I have been preaching the first rule for Portuguese Wine Export : NO CULTURE, NO PAY.

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If we try to sell to an Anglophone buyer, most probably he will not even know where Portugal is located. But if his basic level of knowledge is achieved, please go to level 2 with questions like wine regions, main wine estates, main cultivars, expensive Portuguese wines. Result? Do we need to raise to the next level? Who’s to blame? Certainly not the foreign buyer!

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ICY vs CITRIC, A TRUE WINE CHALLENGE

From 15 to 17 May the 9th Alentejo Vine and Wine Symposium will take place in Évora. Neil Pendock and I have finished a wonderful & enriching 250+ blind tasting of supermarket available wines from Alentejo, retailing between 2 and 10 euros. Thanky you Dora, Tiago & CVRA crew. The Alentejo stands, by far, in the pole position of Portuguese wine consumers choices. Along with the cultural, food & natural unique heritage that will become ones best memory, we have visited Herdade das Servas (lovely Herdade das Servas, Old Vines, Red), Herdade dos Coelheiros (icon Tapada dos Coelheiros, Garrafeira, red) and Herdade do Esporão debuting the new winetourism center & restaurant mastered by young and surprising Chef Miguel Vaz and managed by enthusiastic and lovely Maria & Antonio Roquette.

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The heat management over the vines will be widely discussed during the 9AVWS and results are much appreciated since the majority of Mediterranean wines, like in other warm wine regions, are legal and parsimoniously acidified. But make no mistake: in wines, natural icy freshness is one world apart from added citric sourness.

Natural acidity, as a key figure to wine typicality, will be addressed at the 9AVWS by me: “A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SENSORY PROFILE OF REGIONAL RED WINES FROM GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS OF MAINLAND PORTUGAL” will share the results of my MSc thesis. Thursday, 16th, afternoon, 9AVWS, Évora. See you there.

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Quinta de S. José Reserva

QUINTA DO VALE MEÃO 2010

DO Douro, Red, 2010, 94 Points

Touriga Nacional & Vinhas Velhas. Granada intenso e violáceo. Madeira especiada e peitoral, cheesecake de frutos silvestres, licor de esteva, terroso. Perfumado. Arqueado, denso e cremoso, com sucrosidade, taninos ideais de boa guarda. Superior e internacional.
A: 14%
E: João Brito e Cunha
P: João Brito e Cunha
Awards: Silver 2010, 2009, 2007
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Quinta de Porrais

QUINTA DO VALE MEÃO 2010

DO Douro, White, 2011, 94 Points

Vinhas Velhas. Amarelo claro e citrino. Botão de groselha, matos, fruta cítrica e vermelha, nota floral e mineral. Fresco, alongado, sucroso, grande na mesa.
A: 12,5%
E: Francisco Olazabal
P: Quinta de Porrais
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RESULTS: I IBERIAN MUSCAT COMPETITION

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Just 1 maximum award: Great Gold Medal to Malo Wine Estate, with its Fortified DO Setubal Muscat, Superior 2003. Congratulations!

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Quinta de Arcossó Reserva

QUINTA DO VALE MEÃO 2010

DO Trás-os-Montes, White, 2011, 94 Points

Lote com Arinto. Amarelo médio e citrino. Madeira fresca e abaunilhada, flores, pele e polpa de pêssego e alperce, mineral. Sucroso, amplo, texturas elegantes , fresca e conversadoras. Superior e gastronómico.
A: 13,5%
E: Francisco Montenegro e Amílcar Salgado
P: Quinta de Arcossó
Awards: Silver 2011, 2009, 2008
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Long time bewitched by English & American wine critics, ViniPortugal is communicating a new service on behalf of two ladies with huge commercial creativity and little knowledge of Portuguese wines (I am using any Portuguese young wine blogger as the average reference).  I know and respect the enthusiasm of both wine ladies. And I have nothing to do with Ah&Ah’s direct approach to whatever wine producers. But my gut gets sick when a National Board of Wine Promotion lodges under ViniPortugal’s brand such an ineffective and unpractical service.

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GUIA POPULAR DE VINHOS 2014 TASTING #6 ALGARVE

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