New Portuguese wine discoveries at Simplesmente Vinho 2021
Simon reports back from the 2021 edition of Simplesmente Vinho, Portugal’s most exciting celebration of artisan growers, natural and organic Portuguese wines.
Despatches from Porto: Simplesmente Vinho but is it organic?
It’s now eight years since João Roseira & family first held Simplesmente Vinho, an ‘off event’ designed as an alternative to the much larger and more corporate Essencia do Vinho wine fair – both in Porto. In 2013 there were just Read more
Cool climate curtimenta from Humus
Rodrigo Filipe (Humus) has come up with a strange way to make his curtimenta (skin fermented white wine), but it’s an unqualified success.
The dreaded Palomino – Daterra Viticultores
Tasting at a busy wine fair is hard. Where to go, what to taste? Did I miss something mindblowing amidst the crowds? A tall, rather statuesque lady with impressive dreadlocks grabs my attention. I offer my best/only Portuguese “Posso provar os vinhos brancos?”, she retaliates with a stream of Spanish. I catch the word “Galicia” and little else. The owner of the dreads is Laura Lorenzo, Daterra Viticultores, Galicia.