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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Portuguese wine’
November 19, 2012
Guest Blogger – Zachary Sussman Re-Discovers Esporão
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 [...]
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 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 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 15, 2012
Esporão wins “Producer of the Year 2011”
Best of 2011 award from WINE – A Essência do Vinho (Portuguese wine magazine) We are thrilled to announce that Wine – A Essência do Vinho (a prestigious Portuguese wine magazine) has awarded Esporão “Producer of the Year”, as part of the annual prizes given in recognition of excellence in the sector. In the words [...]