Recently in the Portuguese journal Público, writer Rui Falcão painted a journalistic picture of a country that was feeling the pinch of over-borrowing and over-lending, and wine regions replete with producers that were having trouble resisting “the natural desire of being in the luxury segment, and of being the hot topic within the winemaker’s conversations [...]

Those of you who are looking to quickly expand the number of different wine grape varieties that you can can claim to have tried ought to consider adding Portuguese white wine blends to your tasting regimen. After all, it’s not everyday that you get to drink five white grape varieties that you probably can’t pronounce  [...]

Ever visit someplace exotic and then think, “heck, this is awesome, I could totally live here?” Only just about every time that you go on vacation, right? Well, some wine grape varieties have similar thoughts when they get transplanted, only in less of a taking-a-load-off and more in a tasty-fermented-juice kind of way. Here on [...]

Guest Blogger: Jameson Fink recently visited Esporão’s properties in Portugal on a press trip. He writes his own blog “Wine Without Worry” and you can also find his writings at Foodista.com where he is the Wine Editor. He has traveled the world of wine and spent over 6 years in the retail wine business. In [...]

“How would you like to be a guest chef at one of the finest restaurants in New York?” Most chefs would probably gladly strangle someone with their apron to hear those words.  But then, most chefs wouldn’t expect to hear an offer like that in the bucolic setting of Alentejo, and even the most confident [...]

As a wine geek in the public eye, the question I most get asked most frequently from strangers seeking wine buying advice is always the one whose answer ends up being, ironically, the most personal: “What wine should I bring to [ insert family event/gathering here ] ?” The reason that the answer is so [...]