Tickets for The Wine Gang Fair cost £20, but Wines of Portugal has an exclusive offer just for our newsletter subscribers: use the code WOP2011 to buy tickets from ticketSOUP.com and you will enjoy a £6 discount, paying just £14 per ticket!
Wines of Portugal will also be at The Wine Show in November and the Three Wine Men in December, so save the dates in your diary, and come and taste a range of fabulous Portuguese wines.
The Wine Show
London 11th, 12th & 13th November
Book tickets for The Wine Show in London
The Three Wine Men
London 3rd & 4th December
Book tickets for The Three Wine Men
Tagus Creek is celebrating after its ‘Tagus Creek Trincadeira’ wins the International trophy for the best red blend under £10 at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
The DWWA judges described the wine as:
“Lovely fragrant bouquet of summer pudding and crushed berries with a peppery edge. Juicy and light in tannins with a supple, quaffable ripeness. Deliciously good value. The Portuguese variety Trincadeira blends brilliantly with international grape Shiraz to produce this brilliantly expressive red wine. It’s Silky and structured, elegant and fruity, the Tagus Creek Shiraz .”
You can pick up a bottle from Morrisons, Tesco, Booths and Waitrose, priced at approximately £5.99, it’s a bargain!
SH Jones is hosting a Niepoort Tasting in November and is offering Wines of Portugal readers a discount on a mixed case.
Dirk Niepoort is one of the most influential winemakers in Portugal and makes a terrific range of Ports and Douro wines (as well as wines elsewhere). SH Jones will be presenting a range of both his wines and ports just in time for Christmas; some come along and join in the festive fun.
Date: 3rd November at 7pm
Venue: S H Jones, High Street, Banbury
Price: £15 per person
Call: 01295 251179
Email: banbury@shjones.com
You can also purchase a mixed case containing one bottle each of the following wines:
Redoma Branco
Redoma Rose’
Drink Me Tinto
Dry White Port
Tawny Dee
Ruby Dum
The cost is £72 per case – a saving over £10.
For further details contact SH Jones on 01295 251177
Congratulations to Adnams for sniffing out this bargain when they went to the wine conference in Oporto, Portugal, last December.
It is made by a young producer in the Alentejo, Tiago Cabaço, who specialises in his own native region of Estremoz, advised by oenologist Susana Estéban. (The wine’s official designation of origin is Vinho Regional Alentejano.) It’s massively fruity and has an interesting impact on the palate.
It tastes as though many varieties go into this smartly packaged blend and indeed the producer’s website confirms that it contains Portugal’s admirably nervy Arinto as well as Roupeiro, Antão Vaz, Verdelho and even imported Viognier. It’s fruity, really round and complex, unlike anything else I can think of, and fun.
Adnams said when they saw that this producer’s wine ranges were called .COM and .BEB, they assumed a high level of techiness but claims that when they first met Tiago, he didn’t even have a website. The key apparently is that if you add an E to the end of these two suffixes, you get respectively ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in Portuguese. Of course!
I’d just suggest that you take advantage of this evidence of Portugal’s singularity when it comes to wine production, and enjoy the evidence that its white wines can be every bit as interesting as its reds. For the moment, Adnams seems to be the sole stockist known to wine-searcher.com. Let’s hope that changes soon, as I do think this wine should be drunk this year, ideally.
£7.50
16 Sep 2011 by Jancis Robinson
Do you want to win 6 bottles of Portuguese wine?
Just complete the sentence “I love to drink Portuguese wine because…”
Email your answer to sarah@jkmarketing.co.uk by Monday 24th October and the funniest / most creative answer will win.
Get your thinking caps on, good luck!
| “I feel like the world of wine has been decoded for me. It is like I can speak a new language. Tim is a fantastic teacher. I thought the atmosphere at Vinoteca was great fun and the food absolutely delicious.” Rose Van Orden – Student on Beginners’ Course, 2011 We have great pleasure in announcing our latest Wine Courses at Vinoteca, tutored by renowned Master of Wine, Tim Atkin. The Introduction to Wine and Intermediate Course will commence at Vinoteca Marylebone on the 3rd & 4th October 2011. The relaxed and informal classes cover a range of interesting topics and are followed by a delicious selection of seasonal food, accompanied by the wines featured during the tasting. The courses consist of six classes and will be held in our brand new and very stylish Private Dining Room located at Vinoteca Marylebone (15 Seymour Place W1H 5BD). The price of the course, which includes 6 classes, tasting pack with descriptions & notes, and all wine & food, is £300. Places on the course are limited and can be booked through our online WineShop – http://shop.vinoteca.co.uk/tickets. Further information can be found online or by contacting Louise McTernan, Louise@vinoteca.co.uk or 020 7608 2253. |
| “Tim has a non-didactic teaching style, bags of humour and anecdotes and puts everyone at ease. He’s an approachable and engaging teacher, who encourages discussion and demystifies the process of learning.”
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This exciting new consumer event, hosted by Oz Clarke, Olly Smith and Tim Atkin, a trio of the UK’s liveliest and most entertaining wine personalities. The event will be packed full of exciting wines from all over the world, and there will be a significant Portuguese presence too – keep an eye out for ‘pop up tastings’ which will be taking place throughout the day.
Naked Wines will also offer one lucky visitor a £2,000 expense account to spend on wine and to be their eyes and ears for a month. The winner will be announced before Christmas (after the December tasting).
1. You should come to the tasting armed with a ‘smart’ phone
2. Visit Naked Wines on table 1, and you will be able to download an app.
3. You then taste the wines, record which ones you like and make comments
4. Then the Naked Wines team will see who they think is the most suitable to work for them for a month as their ‘eyes and ears’.
Good luck!
Come and see us on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and in Manchester at the MOSI Museum on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October.
For more information visit www.threewinemen.co.uk or book tickets at www.wegottickets.com
Wines of Portugal have three pairs of tickets to give away to our Wines of Portugal readers for the London or Manchester Three Wine Men events. To be in with the chance of winning simply answer this question correctly
Which Portuguese wine has just been launched at The Wine Society?
(Hint: you can find the answer on this blog…)
Email your answer to: viniportugal@jkmarketing.co.uk with your name and contact number and preferred venue.
The winners will be contacted direct and announced on Facebook and Twitter. Good luck!
T&C’s
Closing date: Monday 19th September
Three winners in total who will be picked at random
One pair of tickets per winner for the Sunday of the London or Manchester events
Tickets will be left for you on the reception desk
The competition will also be promoted on Facebook & Twitter
Wine from Portugal wants you to taste the passion from the Dão this September, and are offering you a mixed case of 6 wines for just £34.99.
The 6 wines include:
Casa de Santar Branco Dão Doc 2009 from Dão Sul
Quinta da Falorca Tinto Dão DOC 2006
Quinta de São Simão da Aguieira Tinto Dão DOC 2005 from Borges
Duque de Viseu Branco Dão DOC2009 from Quinta dos Carvalhais
Quinta da Garrida Reserva Dão DOC 2008 from Aliança
Porta dos Cavaleiros Tinto Dão DOC 2007 from Caves São Joao
For further information click here
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