Food & Gourmet Items
Julio B. Bastos Alicante Bouschet Red Wine
- Item Number
- 273
- Estimated Value
- 135 USD
- Sold
- 35 USD to Maorka
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
Júlio B. Bastos Garrafeira Alicante Bouschet 2007 is the result of a selection of the best grapes from Alicante Bouschet old vines (50 years), trodden underfoot in the marble lagares and then matured in new French oak barrels for 14 months.
A portent of life and class, notes of liquorice, china ink, very dense and deep with great freshness and definition, engaging with an enviable complexity. A wine that despite their 7 years is still very new, very mature and clean wild fruit, wrapped in a mantle of balsamic notes, where the very well integrated wood hugs a set of luxury. Mouth consistent, you will feel a whole firm, intense and at the same time harmonious, deep and conqueror wine with a very long finish. A hymn to the region and to the glorious past of the house.
Portugal is best known for its two legendary fortified wines, Port and Madeira, but it also produces significant amounts of red and white table wine. In most years it ranks around the 10th or 11th largest wine producer in the world. In 2013, for instance, Portugal was the 11th largest producer just after Germany. Wine has always been produced in Portugal and in fact the country was the first to organize an appellation system, which it did in 1756, nearly 200 years before the French set up their appellations. The highest quality wines are labeled D.O.C. for Denominaçào de Origem Controlada. Many of the most innovative winemakers today, however, are avoiding the appellation system, which they deem too stifling for modern winemaking practices. The Douro Valley is the nation’s most important wine producing region, and it is the capital of Port production. The Portuguese island of Madeira, located 400 miles west of Morocco, is the nation’s other famous wine region, having produced Madeira for export for more than 400 years. Many red and white wine grapes grow in Portugal, though the best known is Touriga Nacional, the red grape used for Port and, increasingly, high quality table wines. Touriga Nacional produces dark, tannic, fruity wines.
Item Special Note
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Pick up at 610 Henry Street, Brooklyn NY can be arranged.
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