As the manager of a wine shop, nothing drives me crazier than the question, “Where are your sulfite-free wines?” First of all, sulfites, while more often than not added as a preservative, also and always—repeat, always—occur naturally in wine. Second, if you don’t get a sulfite headache from eating raisins, you won’t get it from drinking wine. […]
Monthly archives for March, 2015
Black Bouschet Beauty
“Both of these seem kind of stiff,” I confessed to Rui Martins of Herdade da Comporta. We were standing by the winery’s tasting room window, which looks out over the surrounding salt marsh. In addition to a winery, Herdade da Comporta also happens to be a rice farm, and much of the marsh is planted […]
Where “Malo” Doesn’...
Quinta de Catralvos, the site of Malo Tojo, is only a 45-minute drive from Lisbon. Approaching the winery, we drive parallel to a vineyard planted with Castelão vines, still barren in early March. Giant urns line the winery courtyard, which overlooks a small grove of orange trees, bordered on all sides by more vineyards—these planted […]