A hugely underrated white, the Galego is packed full of aromatic citrus fruits, as well as rose and pink grapefruit characteristics. Produced by Vallado’s excellent winemakers, the juice is refined with a great balance of fruit and acidity. Perfect summer drinking!
By Denise Medrano, http://winesleuth.wordpress.com/
Very Old Stuff
After a huge Christmas feast you’d think I’d have no room for dessert and you’d be right. BUT I did have room for liquid dessert, namely a glass or 3 of Andresen 40 year old Tawny Port. Andresen is one of the few family owned port houses remaining. Andresen was originally founded in 1845 …
A few of us were lucky enough to visit the Douro Valley and Quinta do Vallado in Portugal a couple of weekends ago and more than a few bottles of this fantastic local wine were drunk. Part of the celebration was to say goodbye to Bibendum legend Dan who has manned this blog since almost the very beginning.
The big fella is off to Australia in January but it’s definitely ’see you later’ …
By The Winesleuth http://winesleuth.wordpress.com/
cork forest
Another European Wineblggers Conference has come and gone….sigh…it just flew by! Before I knew it, I was back winging my way back to Heathrow. But in between landing and take off at Lisbon’s Portela Airport I met some of the nicest people, saw the most amazing scenery …
Port is almost as English as it is Portuguese. Its sweet, strong style was created when we fell out with the French in 1693 and lost our easy access to barrel loads of cheap claret. So we started importing Portuguese wine only to find it too often spoiled on its way from Porto to the tables of the great and the good in London. The solution was to add brandy to make it stronger and …
Errol Flynn...if he had been Portuguese
By Dan Coward
Sometimes a winery is just a winery is just a winery. There are barrels, there’s a room for the barrels, there’s a door to the room with the barrels. Well…you get the idea. And then other times you can come across a winery that just blows all the …
