Luis Duarte, Portuguese Winemaker
We were live from Portugal for a VeroTalk with Portuguese winemaker Luis Duarte named ‘Best Winemaker in Portugal’ three times and his woman winemaker colleague, Mafalda Vasques.
We sipped portuguese wines from their wineries Herdade dos Grous and Quinta de Valbom and learned Luis and Mafalda’s approach to making delicious, sustainable wines.
Watch this event recording here.
Taste with the winemakers yourself by purchasing their wines in our online shop. . Save with our Portugal Explorer Set with shipping included and add onto your order for free shipping their Quinta de Valbom’s Late Bottle Vintage Port.
Taste the flavors of Portugal with wines from Herdade dos Grous and Quinta de Valbom, made by Luis Duarte.
This Portugal Explorer Wine Tasting Set includes 2 wines from 2 Portuguese wine regions: Alentejo and Duoro River Valley. With these 2 wines, you can taste the diverse landscape and terroir of Portugal. Both made from indigenous grapes local to Portugal, Herdade dos Grous White is a refreshing and balanced white blend, and Quinta de Valbom red is a delicious bold red blend that is like a port made into a dry red wine.
Herdado dos Grous and Quinta de Valbom winemaker of these wines, Luis Duarte, has been named as ‘Best Winemaker in Portugal’ by the press, and ‘Best Winemaker in the World’ by German magazine Der Feinschemecker.
Shipping is included for the Continental US for this set, as well as anything added on to your order.
Included in this box are:
This vegan Portuguese white wine is a blend of grapes native to Portugal. With a bright color and balanced fruit and acidity, it is an elegant and enjoyable wine. A blend of native portuguese varieties, the main variety present, Antão Vaz, is the most popular grape in the Alentejo region brings body and aromatic qualities. To balance and add acidity, Arinto grape, which also brings a nice minerality, and Gouveio, a grape like verdejo in Spain, which adds ‘salt and pepper’ aromatics are blended in.
Herdado dos Grous winemaker Luis Duarte has been named as ‘Best Winemaker in Portugal’ by the press, and ‘Best Winemaker in the World’ by German magazine Der Feinschemecker, and Herdade dos Grous was the first to be certified under the Alentejo Wines Sustainability Program (WASP).
Debuting for the first time in the US, this Port wine from small estate winery Quinta de Valbom combines sustainability and tradition to create elegant and exceptional wines.
Produced only during the best harvest years, this ‘Late Bottle Vintage’ Port is aged for 4 years before bottling. Its pleasant balance of fruits and tannins make it great for drinking young and for aging. After a traditional ‘foot treading’ to crush, this port was fermented with the stem before fortification. Then it was barrel aged for four years before bottling.
A wonderful wine to enjoy with rich desserts, it has an intense ruby color and a fruity flavor with floral aromas.
This vegan dry red wine from Duoro is made from a field blend of 100 year old vines, traditionally used to make Port, but instead is made as a dry red wine. Like Port, the grapes are hand-selected, fermentation by stomping feet in granite lagares, which are open vats where wine grapes are crushed by foot thus increasing extraction and tannins. Then the wine is aged for 16 months in French oak barrels before aging further in bottle. Aromas of well-ripened red fruits combine with floral and wood notes to create a structured and complex dry red wine.
This wine is from a small winery that is helmed by winemaker Luis Duarte, who has been named 3 times ‘Best Winemaker in Portugal’ and ‘Best Winemaker in the World’ by a German magazine.