Laura Burgess is a NYC-based sommelier and Portuguese wine enthusiast. In addition to writing her blog, Laura Uncorked, she hosts educational wine events wine and designs wine lists. Check out www.laurauncorked.com or follow her on Twitter @LauraUncorked. What do you get when you put 25 wine-loving women in the same room with several cases of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Herdade do Esporão’
January 28, 2013
Bacalhau with Kale and Potatoes (And Awesome)
Ok, here’s a small bet. Bet you that your mouth starts watering when you see this picture: If that gets your culinary juices flowing, just wait until you watch the video below about how that yummy-looking dish is prepared. You might be drooling all over the keyboard (or smartphone touchscreen – don’t worry, it’ll wipe [...]
January 4, 2013
A Year Of Accomplishments (Looking Back On 2012)
The close of one year and the beginning of the next isn’t just a time to get all the dates wrong on most of the checks that you write in January; it’s also traditionally a time for reflection on the past twelve months. Well, that and resolving to eat fewer chocolate desserts next Christmas… And [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
March 23, 2012
Women in Wine Networking Lunch Showcases Flexible Pairing of Esporão Whites
This post was contributed by Diane Letulle who recently attended our Women in Wine luncheon with Sandra Alves. Diane writes Wine Lover’s Journal. She also writes the Manhattan Wine Examiner and National Wine Travel columns for Examiner.com. She teaches wine classes in New Jersey and recently spoke at the International Wine Tourism Conference in Perugia, [...]
March 1, 2012
Putting a cork in it: Cork and Olive Oil Production in the heart of Alentejo
Herdade do Esporão calls Alentejo home, and we can literally say that the place is literally built on history. While many budding wine geeks know that Portugal is also the home of one of wine’s most iconic packaging ingredients – cork – fewer know that Alentejo itself is the spiritual home of cork production for [...]