Author: Dirk Chan
Well, we’ve arrived at VinExpo in Bordeaux! And indeed it is four football fields worth of pavillions and showcases wines from all over the world. This is serious business as negotiants and agents meet and all the trade descends on this famous wine city. We navigate the parking nightmare, and we visit immediately with a new winery from Portugal, the Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo or Quinta Nova for short and we met with their Export Manager Renata Abreu (pictured).
The introductory line Pomares Branco and Pomares Red are great values in the easy drinking category of wines as we’ve come to expect from Portuguese wines. The intermediate level Grainha Tinto was full of blueberries and earth from the Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional grapes and finally the Reserva was special and actually needs a few years in the bottle.
The 2008 LBV was very fine, oh so smooth and the alcohol well managed with plenty of fruit. You can also see the avante garde bottle design pictured above with Renata in their CLA Ruby port, with its decanter shape bottling. Creative and innovative, we will be bringing this house to Edmonton. Quinta Nova is a wealthy winery and they are pulling out all stops to fast-track their ascendency into the Portuguese wine scene so look for it over the next few weeks on the New Arrivals page.
Tomorrow, a barbecue at Chateau Camarsac.
and visits forthcoming with Jonathan Maltus of St. Emilion…