Guest blogger: Zachary Sussman visited Esporão’s properties in Portugal on a press trip. Back in New York, he manages the Creative Writing Program at NYU and has written about wine for various publications, including Tasting Table (New York and National editions), Wine Chap, Lot 18, Serious Eats, Grape (the Publix Wine Guide), the Weston Magazine [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Alentejo’
September 12, 2012
The welcome surprise at the Wine Bloggers’ Conference #wbc12…Portuguese wines!
Guest Blogger: April Yap-Hennig of The Sacred Drop April was pleased to discover Esporão wines at the 2012 Wine Bloggers’ Conference during the Live Blogging sessions. She contributes this blog post for Notes from Esporão. The Quatro Castas is really gaining attention! Portuguese wines were a huge surprise to me the first time I tried [...]
August 14, 2012
Grape Education, Part Two: An Insider’s View Into Alentejo’s Red Varieties
Now that you’ve gotten the insider’s view on the white wine grapes of Esporão’s Alentejo home, let’s take a look at the other side of the coin: the reds. Today we go behind the scenes with a few of the native Portuguese red wine grapes that go into some of the country’s most interesting red [...]
July 24, 2012
Grape Education, Part One: An Insider’s View Into Alentejo White Varieties
Here on Notes From Esporão we’ve given you an introduction to Esporão’s most iconic white wine, the Reserva White, so you can get a feel for how it beguiling it smells and tastes (you’ll have to get a bottle for yourself of course to get the full experience – unfortunately, we’ve not yet mastered the [...]
July 19, 2012
Esporão creates a website for its olive oils
Did you know the Portuguese word for olive oil is “azeite”? Esporão has created a dedicated website containing detailed information on the origin and production of their olive oils. This is an important resource, containing a wealth of information not only about Esporão’s products, but of olive oil in general. The site was created to [...]
July 11, 2012
A Vineyard Update From Alentejo
An update on the state of the vineyards in Alentejo from our chief winemaker David Baverstock. Stay tuned for another update in August just prior to harvest! David says: “We have had a very dry winter and a cool spring. There is a good crop at present and the vines arelooking very healthy. As spring [...]
June 28, 2012
A Day Well Spent (Esporão Launches Its Newly Revamped Digs)
On the virtual pages of Notes From Esporão, we’ve taken you deep inside Esporão’s olive oil and fine winemaking production, given you a peek at the specially-commissioned art that adorns some of its wine labels, toured you through the beautiful and exotic biodiversity encouraged at their Alentejo site (such as twenty-five bat shelters), explored the [...]
May 2, 2012
The Culinary Institute of America Welcomes Esporão
Chief Winemaker David Baverstock lead a wine seminar for students at the Hyde Park campus and recounts this experience in our latest blog post. On April 11, I made a return visit to the CIA in the company of Blanche Orbe, Brand Manager for Esporão in the States. We made sure to get there early [...]
April 25, 2012
A Rosé is a Rosé is an Aragonês (Esporão’s Defesa And Alandra Rosés Arive in time for Spring!)
You’ve gotten to meet quite a few of Esporão’s wines on these virtual pages (well, as close to meeting them as you can get without actually being able to reach into your screen and drink them… but if we can get over that technological hurdle anytime soon, trust us, you will be the first to [...]
April 5, 2012
Fireworks And Filigree: Three Grapes, Two New Esporão White Wine Releases
Some wines almost literally jump out of the glass at you. Well, not literally splashing at your face (unless you’ve gotten a hold of a very aggressive bubbly, and/or are trying to drink it on a treadmill at high speed – something that is thoroughly not recommended, by the way)… but with flavors and aromas [...]