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“Achados e Perdidos” means “Lost and Found” in Portuguese….. This particular wine is the result of a bottle...
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$19.99
Anyone who has ever ventured into a young vintage port will know that few regions in the wine world can deliver...
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$11.51
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$10.93
Ruby color. Fruity. Light body, soft and spicy. The aroma of ripe red fruits with hints of raspberry.
750ml - Case of 12
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Deep ruby color, medium body, fruity, balanced, leathery and with hints of raspberry. Fruity, strong and soft,...
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$80.00
A wine with deep violet, dark red and purple hues with a high concentration of aromas of mature dark red fruit, black...
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$14.73
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$13.18
A quintessential, easy-drinking Portuguese red blend that works on its own yet would shine with food. Black fruits...
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$14.25
$15.83
Ruby red colour with hints of violet. Intense aroma, dominated by ripe fruit, such as plum, blackberry, raspberry and...
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Deep red color with violet tones. Fresh and complex aroma dominated by ripe black fruits, blackberries, prunes and...
750ml
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$13.04
12 bottles:
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The second wine of Duorum is richly textured while also open and fruity. Its structure and black fruits are shot...
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$15.41
Rated 93 - The 2021 Douro Tinto from Filipe Ferreira is crafted from a cépages of sixty percent Touriga Nacional,...
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$13.00
A blend of Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Sousão, and Tinta Amarela. The wine comes from an intermediate region...
750ml
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$13.50
$15.00
Twisted is a pleasant, easy drinking red wine, but with complexity, mineral notes and great depth, found in the...
750ml
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12 bottles:
$23.46
The grapes for Vertente come from the slopes of Pinhao and Tedo rivers - both Douro tributaries. The grape blend...
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$91.60
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$90.80
A rich and powerful red with astonishing roundness of tannins. On the nose the fruit is upfront with notes of plum,...
Chardonnay Melon de Bourgogne Red Blend Portugal Douro 750ml
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.
Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.
Benefiting from both the hot, dry Iberian climate as well as brisk Atlantic winds, Portugal is a perfectly situated country for vineyard cultivation and wine production. With a wine making history which stretches back thousands of years, it comes as little surprise that wine plays an important role in the cultural identity and practices of the country. The Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Greeks and the Romans all had a hand in forming Portugal as an important center for wine production, and over the millennia, this resulted in each region of this beautiful part of Europe producing its own distinctive wines easily identifiable and separate from neighboring Spain's. Today, the varied terroir and climate across Portugal allows a great range of wines to be made each year, from the fresh and dry Vinho Verde wines to the famous and widely drunk fortified Port wines, and many in between.
The undisputed jewel in Portugal's crown is the beautiful wine region of Douro, located along the banks of the river from where it gets its name. The region itself is renowned around the world for its range of wonderfully aromatic fortified wines, as well as a wide variety of still red and white wines made from native grape varietals. Wineries in the Douro region utilize a huge amount of different local grapes for their characterful wines, but generally the most popular are made from Tinta Roriz, a rich and flavorful red wine grape related to Spain's flagship Tempranillo. However, there are plenty of different red and white grape varietals used in the region, all benefiting from the excellent hot weather and mineral rich terroir which characterizes the Douro valleys.