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Reviewing Douro Reds From Recent Vintages - NYTimes.com

It has looks. With its rows of terraced vines winding along steep, curvaceous hillsides that rise above the sinuous Douro River on the country’s northern tier, it is one of the most beautiful wine regions in the world.

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Ageing very well: New Douro older vintages & maiden wines | Sarah Ahmed - The Wine Detective

Wednesday’s New Douro tasting threw up some delightful surprises.

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New Douro Tasting 2012 edition — jamie goode's wine blog

Yesterday’s New Douro tasting was one of the best yet. While the emphasis was on the 2009 vintage, producer’s also brought the odd older wine, which was appreciated. 2009 is a ripe, warm year, but despite the heat and lack of rain that characterized this vintage, the wines have a lovely purity and openness to them, with good structure underneath. They’re quite delicious. 2008 seems quite a different year, with more obvious structure and acidity, as well as good freshness.

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Mark Squires avalia 308 vinhos portugueses - Revista de Vinhos

Mark Squires avalia 308 vinhos portugueses

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Lots to like: The New Douro’s 2009 reds & 2010 whites, plus a couple of oldies | Sarah Ahmed - The Wine Detective

I’ve spent this last two days in Vila Nova de Gaia closeted in Niepoort ‘s tasting room (not so very bad), tasting over 100 Douro wines and Ports.  

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Decanter World Wine Awards: Portugal joint top of the international trophy table for Old World countries & Margaret River bags international Chardonnay trophy again | Sarah Ahmed - The Wine Detective

Thrilling to see Portugal perform so well at Decanter World Wine Awards last night.

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Barrel tasting "Charme" with Dirk Niepoort in Douro, Portugal

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TThe International Wine Review’s Top 50 Portuguese Wines - International Wine Review

Last year Vini Portugal invited us to taste the wines of Portugal at their source. The result was our Report #24 The New Wines of Portugal. Based on our visit to every major wine producing region of the country and after tasting over 500 wines, we’ve selected our top 50, organized by their region of origin. As we noted in the report, Portugal has made dramatic improvements in its table wines from all regions, not Just the Douro. We were especially impressed with several newer producers we found in the Alentejo, Vinho Verde, and elsewhere. The full tasting notes on these wines can be found at i-winereview.com/tastingArchive/. [Pictured here—Mike and Don in the Douro.]

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Tourónio, an impressive Douro red — jamie goode's wine blog

I love the Douro, and I’m delighted to be going out there again in a couple of weeks. So much is happening, in the relatively new region for table wines. Here’s a new wine from Quinta de Tourais in the Baixo Corgo – the first bit you come to arriving from Porto, which is also the cooler, more rainy bit. This is a very good wine, and it’s not particularly expensive. (Online, I found the 2008 for £13 from the ever excellent The Sampler)

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Portugal-Special Teil 1 - Vinho Verde auf dem Weg in die Weinwelt | YOOPRESS | News Media Portal | WEINBAULÄNDER

So ist der Vinho Verde, basierend auf der in Portugal vorkommenden und vermutlich größten Varietät an authochtonen Rebsorten in Europa, auch verantwortlich für den Exportanstieg portugiesischer Weine auf den internationalen Märkten, beginnend im ersten Halbjahr 2010 mit beachtlichen 20 Prozent. Die Exporte nach Großbritannien, wo Weine aus Portugal schon länger beliebt sind und wo die neuen spritzigen und frischen Weine in den letzten Jahren sehr gut ankommen, steigerten sich um fast 30 Prozent.

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tinto.eu » Blog Archive » Niepoort Fabelhaft Tinto Reserva DOC 2007 & Tinto DOC 2008

Schon das Etikett unterhält und macht auf den Inhalt der Flasche neugierig. Dirk Niepoort wählte für den Fabelhaft das Erlebnis des Raben Huckebein von Wilhelm Busch. Der Name “Fabelhaft” stellt einen Bezug zum Etikett her, da Tiergeschichten als “Fabel” bezeichnet werden. Der Wein setzt sich aus Tinta Barroca, Tinta Cao, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Francesa und Touriga Nacional zusammen. Die Trauben stammen aus der Region Cima Corgo im Douro-Tal. Die Reben wachsen hier auf steilen Terrassen die in den kargen Schieferboden gehauen wurden. Etwa 80 Prozent des Weins werden im Stahltank ausgebaut, der Rest in Barriques aus französischer Eiche. Der Wein verströmt ein betörendes Bukettvon Waldbeeren, Gewürze, Schiefer, feine Röstnoten, ein Hauch von Holz und florale Noten. Am Gaumen füllig, samtig, total ausgewogen, viel würzige Frucht, mineralisch, sehr elegant und mit unwiderstehlichem Charme. Ein wirklich großartiger Charmeur der Trinkfreude vermittelt.Video Bewertung: 5 / 5

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Quinta do Crasto Vinhas Velhas 2008 | E Tudo o Vinho Levou...

Quando se fala no Douro é quase inevitável falar-se da Quinta do Crasto, uma quinta com muita história e onde há muito se produzem grandes vinhos.

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Symington Family Estate table wines, revolution & evolution | Sarah Ahmed - The Wine Detective

I’ve been presenting staff training this week for the D&D group of restaurants who are currently running a special menu in conjunction with The Evening Standard & ViniPortugal (click here for details).

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VINUM – Missionswerk Öxle | 2007 Niepoort: Batuta

www.vinum.de | VINUM – Missionswerk Öxle: Carsten Henn, VINUM-Blogger und langjähriger Weinjournalist von Europas Weinmagazin ist überzeugter Weingeniesser. In der Videokolummne “Missionswerk Öxle” versucht er, den Kabarettisten Hagen Range – einen Biertrinker – vom Wein zu überzeugen: Wein oder Bier? In der heutigen Folge degustieren die beiden einen 2007er Niepoort Batuta aus dem Douro-Tal (Portugal). Ob der Wein, der im VINUM-Rating 17.5 Punkte erhalten hat, unseren Biertrinker bekehren kann?

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Pombal do Vesuvio, Douro, Portugal

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Douro Film Harvest com um toque de Moscatel

Uma outra vertente do envolvimento da Adega de Favaios no festival é a visita diária de convidados e participantes ao centro de vinificação, no decorrer de quatro dias, por volta das 18h00, dando assim a oportunidade de estes experienciarem a azáfama das vindimas.

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Drink Your Way Around Portugal | BootsnAll Travel Articles

Spain, Italy, France. These are the places most people first think of when they imagine going on a wine-tasting trip in Europe. Portugal seems to get lost in the shuffle, a side trip on the Iberian Peninsula, a long strip of land between Spain and the sea. But that’s about to change. Not only is Portugal one of the most affordable wine-tasting destinations in Western Europe, but in addition to producing an incredibly diverse array of quality wines, the country also offers enough other specialty drinks to keep your liver working overtime for weeks.

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Dry Wines from the Portuguese Port Grape Growing Region | Articles on Wine

Portugal has never been famous for its wines. Well, that is not entirely true. Portugal has never been famous for its dry wines. Port, the dark, sweet, super fruity desert wine is probably the most famous and best known Portuguese export. Unfortunately these magnificent wines have totally overshadowed the everyday dinner wines of the Portuguese. Like the Spanish, with whom they share the Iberian Peninsula; wine plays an important part in the Portuguese life style. The Douro River region, in the northern part of the country is the mountainous birthplace of all of the great Port wines and it is also the place where the best dry wines are made. The grapes for these wines are all local to the Douro region and are almost unknown outside of that area, so the wines made there are not at all like “the usual fare.” These Douro dry wines use the same grapes, from the same vineyards that supply the top Port quintas (wineries). In the case of the dry wines, the grape must (juice) is allowed to ferment to its natural finish rather than being stopped half way through by the addition of brandy as is the case with Port. The additional fermentation allows the wine to take a different course than that of Port. Fermented to dryness, these grapes produce a whole new range of flavors and aromas not often ascribed to Port and deserve to be considered as a separate style. No matter what you call them, these Portuguese wines are in a class by themselves and rightly deserve to be so.

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Fahrradweg "Douro Route: Till Porto" - Route description | RouteYou

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The wines of Quinta da Pacheca, Douro, Portugal

Pacheca is located in the Baixo (lower) Douro, just opposite Regua. It consists of two farms, closely located, totalling 51 hectares of vines, and a winery. They also operate an enotourism business. The wines are pretty good: I was especially impressed by the Grande Reserva Touriga Nacional and the Vinha da Rita.  

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