Portugal
Quinta Vale D. Maria LBV 2003
It feels like winter has come early in Melbourne this year, the mornings are bellow 5 degrees and the nights are cold. Not that its a bad thing, its perfect port weather.
The Spanish Aquisition 2005 Premiums Tasting - Portuguese
So after a quick bit of bread and a glass of water, I’m on to the Portuguese table wines, as well as a couple of ports. This is the best showing of Portuguese wines I’ve seen in Australia and the quality here is unmistakable. Every wine here was high quality, showed great personality and I’d [...]
Quinta do Noval Maria Mansa 2005
I spent saturday diving in and out of air condition spaces, hopefully we'll get some relief later this week. I dropped over to a mate's place for long overdue catchup on Saturday night. Thankfully he has air con, so it was quite comfortable to sit back with a couple of reds. I have a stack [...]
IFW tasting
I jumped on the train after work yesterday and headed down to Abbotsford for a tasting of wine from all over the place, but most importantly Spain and Portugal. I have been drinking some of their new releases over the week, but I got a chance to look at few others that haven't made it [...]
Cedro do Noval 2004
If you've ever had even a passing interest in Port, you will have heard of Quinta do Noval. This most be one of the most iconic Port houses going and they are now making table wine in the Douro. They have come a bit later to the game than many, but the wines are bloody [...]
Quinta do Vallado 2005
I had a bottle of this wine back in September, at the time I loved the nose but thought the palate was a bit flat. This time around I had the wine in a blind line-up of 3 bottles to see if anything had changed. This is my note and score from the tasting.
Deep [...]
Quinta do Crasto ‘Crasto’ 2006
Another quick note. I've stolen GW's good work with the "Other Vintages" tag until I come up with something better. So you can get all the info on the wine from the my first write up.
2006 is looking quite good for the Douro so far, the 2005s are undoubtedly excellent however. A whole raft are [...]
Luis Pato Tinto 2005
I'm a bit flat out at the moment so, just a quick note today. The Tinto is Luis Pato's basic baga wine, its made from 90% Baga and 10% Touriga Nacional. I've been impressed by these wines, it is a great range and if you a interesting in Portuguese wine or maybe just something different, [...]
Quinta do Ameal Escolha 2004
The folks at Quita do Ameal say that their aim in life is to do great things with the Loureiro grape variety, and I think they are well on the way. This is a barrel fermented version, it has been highly acclaimed in the European wine press over the past year or so. The aromatics [...]
Niepoort Late Bottled Vintage Port 2001
So what is an Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) port I hear you ask? Well basically, its a vintage port that is left in the barrel past the normal 2.5 years. Historically, it was left if barrel because an order had been cancelled or there was a lack of demand for that vintage. They usually stay in barrel [...]
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