Julia Harding MW, assistant to Jancis Robinson and coauthor of the soon to be released "Wine Grapes" unveiled her 50 Great Portuguese Wines at a tasting in London last month. A list after my own heart, one of her main criteria was that the grapes be only from native grapes, "My one main condition was that they had to be made exclusively from
Portuguese grape varieties, with the honourable exceptions of Tinta
Roriz (Spain's Tempranillo) and the French variety Alicante Bouschet,
which seems to make better wine in Portugal than in France. They had to
be well made and fulfill wine's first duty to the wine drinker: to give
pleasure." Julia Harding MW
Here is a link to the full article on Jancis Robinson's site:
http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201206123.html
Some of these posts are open to all and some are only for subscribers, so if you can't read the full article with Julia's wonderful descriptions, you can at least check out the list here at Sarah Ahmed's site:
http://www.thewinedetective.co.uk/blog/featured/julia-harding-mw-goes-native-revealed-50-great-portuguese-wines-2012/
And also watch a nice video on the event here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feMOvSDYhrM
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