This blog is slightly out of sync with the rest of it really. I was meant to visit a Portuguese restaurant whilst I was running New Wine This Week, week 6, where we had a look at Touriga Nacional. Now I like to cook, so when I’m coming up with food pairings I do like …
Well it was another very well behaved tasting session at the Please Bring Me My Wine household. 4 bottles of wine from each of the 4 shops, during my first valentine’s day as a married man, and spent with my parents, my sister and her fella, and the family dog. Although the dog didn’t taste …
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Not sure if you’ve heard, but it’s Valetine’s Day! So maybe it’s going to be a bit difficult to tell everyone to not just fly off to the wine aisles for the nearest bottle of £10 sparkling wine, but I’m going to try. What can be nicer on a cold, wet, and windy night than …
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Touriga Nacional is produced all the way up and down Portugal. Given it’s full body, vibrant colour, and deep fruit flavour it’s an exceptionally useful wine to use in blends. For the most part that’s how it will come along, as part of a blend. In the central and southern areas, like for Bairrada and …
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Portuguese grape varieties can be really confusing, and in all fairness, I wouldn’t even begin to suggest you look to know them all. One of the biggest the problems is that the names tend to be interchangeable. Tempranillo in Spain (and in pretty much everywhere else in the world) is known as Tinta Roriz in …
I suppose when you think about Portugal, it’s all about sunny holidays, great surf, and a few golf resorts. When you think about what the national drink (from an export point of view I guess) is, you’d be right in saying Port. The sweet and fortified wine effectively invented by the British merchants in the …
Look at us being organized! We’re flicking between old world and new, and red and white, and we’re continuing that theme this week with a trip to Port country for some Portuguese Touriga Nacional.
