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 Wine & Spirits MagazineA Graceful Portuguese Red BlendWine of the Week: DAC, Dão Portugal, 2018. A wine with stamina and grace right from the start, this has a mountain-fresh feel to its tannins and lasting flavor intensity. DAC stands for Dão, Alvaro Castro, a winegrower based in the foothills of the Serra da Estrela, where he produced this spicy and welcoming wine. Read Here
A Graceful Portuguese Red Blend
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 Wine & Spirits MagazineThe Top 100 Wineries of 2023Congratulations to Azores Wine Company and Luis Seabra Vinhos! Read Here
The Top 100 Wineries of 2023
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 Food & WineThe Best Wines for Thanksgiving DinnerXisto Ilimitado - Winemaker Luis Seabra assembles this peppery red from a jigsaw puzzle of native Portuguese varieties: Touriga Franca, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Roriz, Rufete, and others. It’s darkly fruity yet so fresh and bright that you don’t notice its intensity. - Ray Isle Read Here
The Best Wines for Thanksgiving Dinner
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 Observer8 Unique Red Wines to Enjoy as the Weather Cools DownXisto Ilimitado Tinto is a red blend of Touriga Franca, Tinta Amarela and Tinta Roriz from Portugal’s Douro Valley emphasizes the quality of dry table wine that the region can produce. - Jillian Dara Read Here
8 Unique Red Wines to Enjoy as the Weather Cools Down
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 The New York TimesIs Albariño the Next Great White Wine? It Depends.Rodrigo Méndez, an experimental farmer and winemaker who pursues traditional methods of making albariño, at his winery in the Rías Baixas region of Spain on its Atlantic coast, where albariño wine is king, - Eric Asimov Read Here
Is Albarino the Next Great White Wine? It Depends.
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 The New York TimesIn Sherry Country, Wines of the Future That Look to the PastAlberto Orte, who makes wine across Spain but in recent years has focused on finding and recovering these lost grapes. He is now making wines in Jerez from grapes like tintilla, which is genetically identical to graciano, a grape grown in Rioja, as well as vijiriega, which comes in red and white varieties. - Eric Asimov Read Here
In Sherry Country, Wines of the Future That Look to the Past
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 Robert Parker Wine AdvocatePortugal: Some Big Names and Nine Nuanced Observations (This Is the Way)The group of wineries featuring at least one Maçanita as a principal has their usual onslaught of labels and is the centerpiece of this report. They have a lot of labels these days! Let’s talk about that, from Douro to Alentejo to the Azores. - Mark Squires Read Here
Portugal: Some Big Names and Nine Nuanced Observations (This Is the Way)
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 ForbesAdd These New Guard, Sommelier-Approved Rosés To Your Summer RotationAzores Wine Company Vulcanico Rosé — Located on Pico Island, the property was planted on deep black, volcanic rocks and the wines underline the landscape — tough minerality, a hint of seaside salt, and fragrant strawberries with this gorgeously textured acidity. Read Here
Add These New Guard, Sommelier-Approved Roses To Your Summer Rotation
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 Wine EnthusiastThe 3 Main Types of Sherry and Bottles to Try NowIt’s said that good things come in threes, and that really applies to Sherry. Hailing from an area called the “Sherry triangle” in southeastern Andalucía, the region officially known as DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry... - Mike Desimone Read Here
The 3 Main Types of Sherry and Bottles to Try Now
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 Wine & Spirits MagazineWine of the Week: Elegant Portuguese Red"Alvaro Castro replanted his vines at Saes around the turn of the century; it’s an east-facing vineyard in the foothills of the Serra da Estrella where he and his daughter Maria grow touriga nacional, alfrocheiro, jaen and tinta pinheira for this blend..." - Joshua Greene Read Here
Wine of the Week: Elegant Portuguese Red
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 Shanken News DailyNew York-based importer Olé & Obrigado has introduced Nordésa Spanish gin, in select markets across the U.S. The Galician gin is made using local botanicals including bay laurel, lemon verbena, eucalyptus, and salicornia, among others, and is bottled at 40% abv. Read Here
New York-based importer Ole & Obrigado has introduced Nordes
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 The New York TimesWhere Port Reigns, Unfortified Wines Undergo a Stylistic EvolutionIn the cellar of a modern, concrete winery in this small town in the Douro Valley, Luis Seabra was drawing a sample of his 2018 Xisto Cru Branco from the large old barrel in which it was aging. Even at such an early stage, this was a gorgeous white wine... - Eric Asimov Read Here
Where Port Reigns, Unfortified Wines Undergo a Stylistic Evolution
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