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Now Viewing: Quinta Alqueve Tardio Winery
What that has to do with wine, or specifically a nicely bodied white varietal that is blended into much of Portugese dry white wine and sherry, we may never know. What I do know is that I like it a lot, and thanks to the hard work of Paulo de Saturninno Cunha and Robert Kacher, it's now available from a winery called Quinta do Alqueve. Located 40 miles north of Lisbon, this small property has always been the Cunha family farm, but 20 years ago it was transformed through the planting of 100 acres of vines in the dry calcite rich soil. Cunha planted grape varieties from the Porto region of Portugal, and for the last 20 years he has been farming them with care: thinning the crop twice per season to keep the yields extremely low, picking and sorting everything by hand. This type of careful attention has garnered a lot of attention for Quinto do Alqueve, and it has been picked by several Portuguese journalists as the best young winery in the country.
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