Etiket: Douro
Tones of Duorum 2020, Douro, Portugal
It smells good. Better still, it gives the warm impression of entering a Portuguese family home where the evening meal is never pompous, but terribly authentic. This rustic, pleasant, juicy…
Caldas 2021, Douro, Portugal | The duty
Domingos Alves de Sousa. The man behind a battery of dry Douro reds to bite your fingers and tongue at the same time. This inspired and meticulous winemaker is a…
Otima Porto Tawny 20 years old, Warre’s, Douro, Portugal
Sister André, more than a hundred years old, would have appreciated it from the height of her 118 years. Twenty years of thunder (here, 1998 vintage) for a light topaz…
Trava-Linguas 2020, Pocas, Douro, Portugal
This beautiful family home has it all. Not only does she perfectly understand the adequacy of grape varieties/terroir/climate of the region, but she is constantly innovating, suggesting new expressions for…
Manuel Carvalho Martins Golpe Douro 2019 | Affordable: powerful, yet fresh
I could also have qualified this wine as “classic” or “bargain”. Made with traditional Douro grape varieties (50% touriga nacional, 25% tinta roriz, 25% touriga franca) and aged partly in…
Wines of the week | Dourosa Douro 2019: a distinctive mark
In order to better guide you in your choices, our guest sommelier now offers wines every week according to six possible categories: Affordable, Bargain, Classic, Discovery, Keeping and Treating. You…
Tawny 10 years old, Offley, Sogrape, Porto, Douro, Portugal
The sweetness of such a softness certainly does no harm when the spleen of an endless winter stifles what we have left of hope. At a low price, a few…
Tones 2019, Duorum Vinhos, Douro, Portugal
We dive here at the source, like a leafed through book in the first chapter, where the setting is set. Here, the decor is the Douro terroir and its native…
Make way for “dry” in the Douro
It’s an open secret to say that port consumption has run out of steam in recent years, both in Quebec and in other markets, with the possible exception of the…
Porto Tawny 20 years old, Cabral, Douro, Portugal
At a ridiculous price, taking into account the “historical” time devoted to these monuments of world viticulture, it remains almost insulting to shun the great mutants of the Douro. This…
Noval Black Reserve, Quinta do Noval, Douro, Portugal
Vintage Character ? Late Bottle Vintage ? Somewhere in between? This wine has in any case the dress of the first and the patina of the second. But above all,…
Duorum 2018, Douro, Portugal | The duty
The least we can say is that the dry red wine of Douro has guts, mouth, character and a traceability which is essential at the first glance of the nose.…
Cistus 2020, Quinta do Vale da Perdiz, Douro, Portugal
Given the number of great finds lodged under the shrinking $ 16 bar, you’ll have to get used to seeing Portugal in the spotlight more often. This wine does not…