by Jo Diaz | Jul 4, 2022 | Alentejo, Portugal, Rosé, White Wine, Wine, Wine & Food, Wine and Food, Wine Appreciation, Wine Blogger, Wine Country, Wine Culture, Wine Ed, Wine Education, Wine HIstory, Wine Samples, Wine tasting, Wine Travel, Winemaking, Winery, Wines, Wines of Portugal
Why discovering Portuguese history, and some wines from Portugal’s Esporão Group, helps to put wine into an overall perspective. Culture plays an enormous role in what the flavors of wine become. Yes, we can grab a bottle of wine and just throw it back, but...
by Jo Diaz | Feb 9, 2022 | Imports, Portugal, Portuguese wine, Wine
The brand that I’ve been recently fortunate to discover is Herdade do Esporão. Drop your tongue behind your lower teeth, to pronounce Esporáo. There’s a YouTube video is at the end of this story, on Portuguese vowel pronunciations, in case you enjoy new...
by Jo Diaz | Feb 9, 2022 | Portugal, Portuguese wine, White Wine, Wine
This story is like a return visit to that old friend Portugal’s Alentejo (ah-len-TAY-zhoo); the oos and aahs of it all! [PHOTO CREDIT for this story: Jo Diaz, all rights are reserved, unless otherwise noted] The Alentejo wine region was the very first...
by Jo Diaz | Jun 21, 2017 | Alentejo, Food & Wine, Portugal, Vineyards, Viticulture, Wine, Winemaking
The Old World, brought to me gratis of Enoforum Wines… My exposure to Portugal was a paradigm shift in so many ways. It helps that my DNA dates back to Europe, because it was a return to my roots, and recentered my origins. I’ve traced two forefathers to...
by Jo Diaz | Apr 24, 2017 | France, Importer, Imports, Italy, Portugal, Rosé, Wine
The email began: “Could a chance encounter with a taxi lead to one of the biggest new things in wine?” Locations Wines Got My Attention It went on: A strange statement, I know – but true. Just after the 2010 harvest, Dave Phinney (Orin Swift fame, and the...
by Jo Diaz | Mar 30, 2017 | Alentejo, Jo's World, Portugal
Anything, everything, all of the time… I left a chunk of my heart in the Alentejo. Just search on Alentejo, or Portugal, on my wine blog. Sadly, the second trip (media) that came as an opportunity, I had just booked another flight, and missed the boat (plane)....
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