OUR WINE IN A PINT

Artigo que li esta semana, aqui em Inglaterra acerca dos nossos vinhos, aqui fica,


Portuguese wine would make a fascinating case study for modern business managers.

It was precisely Portugal’s prolonged isolation from fashionable trends and nostrums which preserved its rich heritage of indigenous in a Europe so comprehensively invaded a handful of international grapes.

Touriga National, for example, unquestionably produces great red table wine as well as Port and is increasingly to be found on wine labels in Portugal and beyond .
Touriga Francesa and Tinto Cão are other Port grapes clearly capable of making the transition from fortified to less potent wine, while Trincadeira Preta (The Tinta Amarela for Port) has great richness and Jaen (Mencia in Spain’s Galicia) can make distinguished, juicy young wine. And these are not the only Portuguese red grapes of great character.
The grape known as Tempranillo in Spain is also extremely successful in Portugal, called Tinta Roriz I n the north and Aragonez in the south.
Arinto is probably Portugal most aristocratic white grapes but Bical can also age well and Dao’s Encruzado has great potential for full-bodied whites.
All this without taking into account the great white grapes of Portugal’s wine island, Madeira.

É sempre bom ouvir falar de Portugal, nem que seja em Inglês,
porque para bom entendedor, meio copo de Trincadeira basta....