A couple more Portuguese wine discoveries

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A couple more Portuguese wine discoveries

The great thing about visiting Portugal is that there are always more wines to discover. Here are a couple from this week.

First, up, a couple of Dao wines from new producer Julia Kemper. These are organic, and delicious. The red is really fresh, intense and vivid – still youthful and showing a little oak, but with real potential. The white is perhaps even better, with a hint of matchstick reduction and lovely fruit intensity.

We had these with dinner on Friday, held at a restaurant next to the free-slowing Mondego river. Pictured is the main course – a deliciously rustic knuckle of pork.

Then, yesterday, we had lunch at Cova de Lopa in Linhares. The food was fantastic, with the highlight being a brilliant grilled pulvo (octopus). The wine that caught my attention here was .beb, a stylishly packaged red from the Alentejo, made by Susana Esteban. It’s really fresh and vivid, with more definition and brightness of fruit than most of its peers.

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  1. The bottle of .beb red is really stylish…but the hand is amazing:) Jamie thanks for the sympathy!! It was very fine to meet and show you some brand new wines. To know more about .beb Premium Red visit the tiagocabacowines.com. Cheersss!! José Virgílio the sommelier of the lunch:)

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