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Chateauneuf Du Trap
All good travel stories have a beginning. The Odyssey, the Canterbury Tales, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller… This one started at 15.30 in Avignon. Here I was waiting to catch up with two Australian...
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Wine Experience of the Week – The Winery Formerly Known As
Having a short time in the Bordeaux region, we consulted the Wine Atlas and chose a road that seemed pretty well populated with wineries. That was programmed into the navigations system and we said we...
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Wine Experience of the Week – In the Rioja
I ventured across the border into Spain recently. I visited the Rioja region on the way back to Portugal. I was not sure what to expect of the region. I hoped it would not have turned into the same...
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Wine Experience of the Week – Good vs. Evil
I took a couple from California to visit some wineries in Portugal recently. Apart from being knowledgeable about wine, they were also quite outspoken about the nature of the seemingly conservative...
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Wine Experience of the Week – The Grape Indoors
The weather has definitely turned. The last few days have been a good time to keep myself inside with the rain and wind. The good thing about that is I get to catch up on what is happening on the world...
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Wine Experience of the Week – Adegga Wine Market 2010
I was in attendance at the Adegga Wine Market in Lisbon over the weekend. The second event of its type wet up by the Adegga team brought together 30 wine producers and over 150 wines to sample and buy....
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Top 10 Touriga Nacionals
Just a quick post from the 1st Wines of Portugal International Conference in Porto. The focus of the event is to spread the word about Portuguese wines around the world. To do this they have invited...
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Something Different From Portugal – Herdade do Portocarro
Portuguese red wines are often about fruit, fruit and more fruit. That is great if you have that sort of pallet – which many important critics seem to have – but people have other tastes and like...
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