{"id":3823,"date":"2018-02-15T00:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/wines-of-lisbon-lisboa-portugal-day-3-4\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:21:25","slug":"wines-of-lisbon-lisboa-portugal-day-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/wines-of-lisbon-lisboa-portugal-day-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Wines of Lisbon (Lisboa) Portugal \u2013 Day 3 & 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Throughout our visit of producers both large and small, we saw everything from Syrah to Castelao; learned about sparkling wines that rival some of the best outside (and sacrilegiously) inside Champagne; found Port-style whites aged 7 and 15 years in oak, learned of a unique grapes grown only in the town of Oeires – and tasted some under $15 wines (available in Ontario) that you should run right out and buy … like now.<\/p>\n

All part of day 3 & 4 of the wines of Lisboa jaunt … below are the wines that suitably impressed which in some instances are worth seeking out:<\/p>\n

To read further insights see day 1 & 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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Casa Santos Lima …<\/strong>
\"\"established at the end of the 19th century as bulk producer, now in its 5th generation under family ownership, still mainly as exporters (90%) to 55 countries including Canada, which ranks in their top 5 of exported to countries.<\/em>
2015 Bon Ventos<\/span> (****)
2014 Confidencial Reserva<\/span> (****)
2015 OMG<\/span> (****+)
2015 Colossal<\/span> (****)
2013 Reserva<\/span> (****)
Special Mention:  2015 Passion<\/span> (*** ½+) and 2015 Lab<\/span> (*** ½)<\/p>\n

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Quinta de S. Sebastiao …<\/strong>
property established in 1755 and here the monastery began making wine; bought by current owner in 1985 and produced their first wines to sell in 2006; it’s a 35 acre farm of which only 10 is planted.<\/em>
2014 Reserva, red<\/span> (****)
2012 Grand Escolha, Touriga Nacional<\/span> (****+)<\/p>\n

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Quinta de Sant’Ana …<\/strong>
Interesting storied family history that dates back to 1969; started seriously making wine at the property in 2004\/2005.<\/em>
2013 Reserva<\/span> (****)<\/p>\n

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Manzwine …<\/strong>
based in the historic 600 year old town of Cheleiros, owned by Brazillian soccer pro Andre Manz – self-described philosophy: “I make wine for myself, my friends and then to sell.”<\/em>
2015 Penedo de Lexim<\/span> (****)
2013 Reserva – Pomer do Espirito Santo<\/span> (****)<\/p>\n

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Camara Municipal de Oeires …<\/strong>
part of the Carcavelos DOC where they make Port-like (style) white dessert wines from indigenous grapes: Arinto, Galego Dourado and Ratinho<\/em>.
Villa Oeires 7 year old<\/span> (****)
Villa Oeiras 2004 Colheita<\/span> (****+)<\/p>\n

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Throughout our visit of producers both large and small, we saw everything from Syrah to Castelao; learned about sparkling wines that rival some of the best outside (and sacrilegiously) inside Champagne; found Port-style whites aged 7 and 15 years in oak, learned of a unique grapes grown only in the town of Oeires – and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}