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Video: Baga and Bairrada, a star red grape from a beautiful Portuguese region

August 2, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4068 Views Baga, Bairrada

Jamie Goode heads to the Portuguese wine region of Bairrada, on the trail of the region’s star red grape variety,

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Quinta de Baixo, where Niepoort are making increasingly compelling wines in Bairrada, Portugal

July 31, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4685 Views Baga, Bairrada

Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay

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Quinta de Santiago: some lovely naturally inclined wines from Vinho Verde, Portugal

June 9, 2023 jamiegoode 5577 Views Vinho Verde

Website: Quinta de Santiago I tasted these wines with Joana Santiago, who came to work at her family estate in

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (5) tasting the wines

June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 5018 Views Tejo

This was a large tasting of Tejo wines, many of which had scored highly at a large competition in the

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (2) Pedro Sereno and Marquês de Tomar

June 2, 2023July 6, 2023 jamiegoode 6704 Views Tejo

Pedro Sereno represents the new face of Tejo. He’s making relatively small quantities of terroir-focused wines from the Tomar in

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (3) Casal de Coelheira

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 5911 Views Tejo

Nuno Falcão Rodrigues’ parents bought Casal de Coelheira in 1986, and he started working here in 1992. It’s the last

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (4) Quinta do Casal Monteiro

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 5749 Views Tejo

Casal Monteiro is a relatively large vineyard that is purely on the Campo terroir of the Tejo. They are just

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (1) an introduction

June 2, 2023June 5, 2023 jamiegoode 5212 Views

In this series of articles, published together, I’m going to be exploring the Tejo wine region in Portugal, which has

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Pêra-Manca vertical tasting: tasting multiple vintages of this cult Alentejo (Portugal) wine, plus others from the Cartuxa portfolio

May 10, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 8884 Views Alentejo

Pêra-Manca is the name for the ‘cult’ red and white wines made by large Alentejo producer Adega Cartuxa, which since

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Exploring Bairrada, Portugal, on the Baga trail (1) Vadio

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 jamiegoode 5333 Views

Luís Patrão was for a long time the wine maker at large Alentejo winery Esporão, a job he stayed in

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