Laithwaites Wine Aluado Alicante Bouschet Red Wine - 6 Bottles (75cl) - Laithwaites Wine

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Of course by the time I drank the Aluado 2018 Alicante Bouchet "Reserva" it was no longer available much to my great dismay. Alicante Bouschet in the coastal Lisboa region is more restrained than it is in Alentejo, so the wine is crisp as much as ripe, with attractive red berry fruits and soft tannins. That didn’t deter José - a talented winemaker, credited by wine journo Tim Atkin as the man behind Portugal’s wine revolution. During the whole fermentative process, pumping over 2 times per day, using each time half of the volume contained in the vat.

The driver will input your year of birth into their device and may then require an ID check to complete the age verification process. Alicante Bouschet produces some of the world's deepest coloured wines and is often used to enhance Portugal's top reds.

They said he was ‘aluado’ (‘loony’) but the ever inventive José Neiva Correia has proved his doubters wrong. Winning Gold medals almost every vintage, Jose makes the wine at his family estate, Quinta de Porto Franco, just north of Lisbon.

It was Jose who, whilst under the spell of the moon went ‘Aluado’, dreaming up the idea of creating a wine entirely from this unique grape. In Lisboa, the Alicante Bouschet, whose spiritual home is the warmer Alentejo, develops a more stalky character with considerable acidity.There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The closest I could get was this 2021 Aluado Alicante Bouchet but it does not carry the accolade "Reserva" and although easy drinking and enjoyable it is not as rich and fruity as the 2018.