Columbia-Crest Two Vines Merlot 2003

Columbia-Crest Two Vines Merlot 2003 - 13.5%, clean, aged with a brownish ruby colour, red fruit aroma as well as spiced spices. Velvet finish.

Frei João Reserve Red 2005 (Bairrada)

Frei João Reserve Red 2005 (Bairrada) - 13%, Baga, Camarate and Cabernet Sauvignon grape varieties, dark ruby colour, almost cloudy. Figs, black fruit, plums, grapes, blackberries and vanilla aromas. Spicy, fat, complex wine with a long final.

Frei João 2006 (Bairrada)

Frei João Red 2006 (Bairrada) - 13%, Baga, Touriga Nacional, Merlot, Tinta Roriz grape varieties, dark ruby colour, dry plums, pine, dry figs and vanilla aromas, complex and dry wine.

Alento Rosé 2008

Alento Rosé 2008 - 12%, clean, old pink colour, much perfumed, flowers, red fruit, roses, rome, balanced acidity. In the mouth the aromas are unnoticed. Dry final.

Quinta do Poço do Lobo Brut 2006 (Bairrada)

Quinta do Poço do Lobo Brut 2006 (Bairrada)- 13%, chardonnay and arinto grape varieties, creamy foam, fine bubble, clean, citric colour, vanilla and yellow flowers aroma, mineral, with volume, cool, good acidity. Very nice sparkling wine!

Quinta do Alqueve Chardonnay 2007 (Tejo)

Quinta do Alqueve Chardonnay 2007 (Tejo) - 14%, yellow and green moisture colour, clean, citric and floral aromas, rasps, lemon, butter, fresh, dry, medium final.

Caves São João Brut Reserve 2006

Caves São João Brut Reserve 2006 (Bairrada) - 12.5%, green citric colour, rasp, lemon and, passion fruit aromas. Average bubble and acidity.

Holidays

It has been a nice time to taste interesting wines mainly from Bairrada. Soon I'll publish here some taste note as well as some photos. I'll also put here some photos from my visit to Quinta do Barranco Longo.

Quinta de Chocapalha Red 2005 (Estremadura, Portugal)

Clean wine with a strong dark red color as well as violet aureole. It has aromas of mature red fruit, red plums and some pass of grape. Some spices are also noticed. In the mouth it enters strong with flavors of wrinkled fruit. Average and alcoholic end (14.5%)

Silly Season

Silly Season.

What's that?

Is that the time when we don't know what to do? What to read? What to drink? Or is the time to be completely relaxed and without preconceptions?

Is the time to drink wine without thinking what's the aroma and the flavour. To taste easy wines without writting about them. To talk about wondering about the next harvest and the quality if the grapes.

I'm almost arriving...

Tim Flach

Tim Flach is a professional in is art, photography. With an huge portfolio of photos, mainly animals he allow us to see perfectly what he somehow can capture.

Reborn

After a big lack of information because of several projects which I was working on this is a reborn of artmeetsbacchus.blogspot.com.

It's impossible to update this on a daily base but I'll try to bring here news about art from artists that I like as well as wines that I taste.

Thank you all for waiting so long,

Rui Lourenço Pereira