XMAS IN LISBON

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REVISTA WINE - A ESSÊNCIA DO VINHO

Weekend stars:)

From Portugal with Love recommends this week:):

http://www.essenciadogourmet.com/

http://www.essenciadovinho.com/

Essência do Gourmet 2012

  

Essência do Gourmet 2012 - Porto

Wine Spectator Top 100

The Top 100 Wines of 2012 | Wine Spectator

FULL LIST OF TOP 100 - PDF: 

http://images.winespectator.com/wso/pdf/WS123112_Top100AtAGlance.pdf

Quinta do Vallado em 13º no Top 100 da Wine Spectator | Hipersuper

Quinta do Vallado em 13º no Top 100 da Wine Spectator | Hipersuper

Quinta do Vallado em 13º no Top 100 da Wine Spectator

22 de Novembro de 2012 por Hipersuper

A mais mediática lista de vinhos de 2012 foi divulgada.

No top 100 dos melhores do mundo, de acordo com a mais influente publicação de vinhos do mundo, a revista Americana Wine Spectator, está a Quinta do Vallado.

A marca é, no que respeita aos produtores nacionais, o mais bem posicionado da lista, assumindo o 13º lugar com o vinho Quinta do Vallado Touriga Nacional 2009. “Um motivo de orgulho para a região do Douro e para os vinhos portugueses. O mesmo vinho, a mesma referência e uma casta portuguesa no topo da lista das preferências daquela que é considerada a bíblia dos vinhos, por três anos consecutivos”.

O Quinta do Vallado Touriga Nacional 2009 é, aliás, o único vinho de mesa a conseguir este feito. “Acima do 20º lugar não figura mais nenhum vinho de mesa português”.

A empresa explica que o prémio comprova a solidez da sua estratégia de internacionalização, que contemplou recentemente um passo relevante – o lançamento do Vallado Adelaide Tributa. Trata-se de um Porto centenário, produzido a partir de uvas pré-filoxéricas, do qual foram produzidas 1.300 garrafas, disponíveis para venda em Portugal nas melhores garrafeiras e em mercados internacionais de grande montra, como a Rússia, a China, Angola e Brasil, por um preço que ronda os €3.000.

Lisbon start-up city

Portugal's elegant dry reds complement the holidays | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

Portugal's elegant dry reds complement the holidays | The Tennessean | tennessean.com:

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Imprensa portuguesa distingue 41 néctares - Revista de Vinhos

Imprensa portuguesa distingue 41 néctares - Revista de Vinhos

YORK HOUSE, LISBOA

Myriad Lisbon by Sana Hotels

http://myriad.pt/?lang=en

http://www.booking.com/hotel/pt/myriad-by-sana-hotels.en.html

ALDEIAS DE PORTUGAL

http://www.aldeiasdeportugal.pt/EN/

Aldeias de Portugal is a new concept of rural accommodation that allows you to discover the Portuguese back roots, the hospitality and natural life.

They are unique rural villages embraced by idyllic landscapes, preserving the environment and their traditions, their architecture, their people, culture and customs.

Aldeias de Portugal invite you to something unexpected: to stay in a reconverted rustic house in a remote and peaceful village, somewhere in Portugal.

You are invited to spend a special holidays with comfort, experimenting the simplicity of a traditional village. You can enjoy the real rural Portugal; the nature, the way of living, the gastronomy and the culture of each village.

Aldeias de Portugal are great places to enjoy vacations of total independence, deeply in the nature and local life. It is an opportunity to enjoy a typical lodging, in a rural environment.

http://www.aldeiasdeportugal.pt/EN/

Aldeias of Portugal Part 1: Staying with Friends | Catavino

Aldeias of Portugal Part 1: Staying with Friends | Catavino:

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Riding the Portuguese waves

Portuguese Waves

http://www.portuguesewaves.com/

Portugal: simply beautiful

Sir Cliff Richard's Adega do Cantor

http://www.winesvidanova.com/thepeople.htm



Sir Cliff Richard's own wine made in Portugal

Gordon Ramsay tests Cliff Richard`s wine knowledge

An Oasis Of Modern Design, For Rent In Rural Portugal

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670757/an-oasis-of-modern-design-for-rent-in-rural-portugal#1

THIS FIVE-BEDROOM GETAWAY WILL MAKE YOU WISH YOU HADN’T TAKEN ALL YOUR VACATION TIME THIS YEAR. (in http://www.fastcodesign.com/)

Global Wine & Spirits

http://www.globalwinespirits.com/

Matching Wine with Food – An Easy Guide

http://www.shoppersbase.com/22465/matching-wine-with-food-an-easy-guide/

Portuguese wines and the relationship quality-price

"The quality of Portuguese wines is extraordinary," says Gary Vaynerchuk.
For the largest online retailer of wine, owner of Wine libray, Portugal is the dominant country in the relationship quality-price in red wines.
Gary says he cannot understand how Portugal can produce and sell such good wine for only 5 euros.

More about Gary Vaynerchuk
Website: http://garyvaynerchuk.com
Wine Library: https://winelibrary.com
Wikipedia: http://tiny.cc/wineGuy

Winemaker of the year for Portugal

Wines of Portugal | Photo Paulo Mercadante | 26 July '12

The winemaker Luís Sottomayor was considered winemaker of the year 2012 at the International Wine Challenge, one of the most important international wine competitions.

http://www.winesofportugal.info/pagina.php?codNode=119352&market=2

Tall Ships Race 2012

The Portuguese caravel Vera Cruz

The Portuguese caravel Vera Cruz, a replica of the original caravels that started the saga of the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries 

Bye, Lisbon! Next stop, Cadiz

Tall Ships Lisboa 2012

http://www.tallshipslisboa.com/

Tall Ships Race Lisbon : they're coming!

The beauty of Lisbon

GREAT PAGES ON PORTUGUESE WINES:

https://www.facebook.com/winesofportugaluk

https://www.facebook.com/WinesOfPortugalUS

https://www.facebook.com/Wines.Portugal

https://www.facebook.com/PWCellar

http://www.portuguesewinecellar.com/



https://www.facebook.com/clubedovinho.portugues

Portuguese Wine Cellar

The best app about portuguese wines for IOS and Android devices.

http://www.portuguesewinecellar.com/

sales.gomes@portuguesewinecellar.com

Mission

Promotion of excellent portuguese wines worldwide.
Difusão e promoção dos excelentes vinhos portugueses a nível mundial.

Description

Portuguese wine is unique. It is good. It is excellent. It is among the best in the world.
The proof of this is in the prizes and distinctions it has won in all the international contests it has entered in the last few years.
The quality has improved, demand and international recognition has increased and the value of exports has grown, year after year.
To make known the country that produces this quality product, its producers, the national castes, the enotourism which exists from north to south of the country, is the mission of the PWC Portuguese Wine Cellar application.
To be present on the new emerging mobile platforms is, for us, a national obligation. To reach the largest number possible of admirers, of professionals, of general consumers, through the apparatus with the biggest growth rate in the last 3 years; smartphones and tablets.
This is why we have developed the Portuguese Wine Cellar which will be present in iPad, iPhone and mobile phones and tablets with an Android system.
To reach the largest number of users possible the application will be launched in English and Portuguese. Other languages will also be considered later.

Extreme Sailing Day 4. Act 4 - Porto, Portugal. *LIVE*

Day 3. Act 4 - Porto, Portugal. *LIVE*

Extreme Sailing Series Act 4 Porto begins!

Extreme Sailing Series Porto

The Regatta of Rabelos Boats

A Regata dos Barcos Rabelo está a chegar! No próximo domingo, às 17h00, os Barcos Rabelos desfilam com as velas erguidas, nas quais exibem o nome da firma de Vinho do Porto a que pertencem. 

The Regatta of Rabelos Boats is coming! Next Sunday, at 5pm, the rabelos boats parade with their sails raised, in which they expose the name of the Port Wine company to which they belong.

http://www.tallshipslisboa.com/

VOLVO OCEAN RACE IN LISBON: 1OTH June 2012, Portugal's National Day

Visit Portugal!






http://www.visitportugal.com/Cultures/en-US/default.html

http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/racetracker/rdc.html

THE VOLVO OCEAN RACE 3D SAT TRACKER - KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH THE RACE

[LIVE]Bryan Adams-Heaven - Rock In Rio 2012

Volvo Ocean Race . Lisboa Stopover 2012 (inEnglish)

Volvo Ocean Race . Lisboa Stopover 2012

Volvo Ocean Race - Lisbon Stopover 2012

http://www.cooljazzfest.com/programa_2012_english.html

http://www.cooljazzfest.com/programa_2012_english.html

Sting, Buena Vista Social Club feat. Omara Portuando, Al Jarreau, Liz Wright and Raul Midón, Pablo Alborán feat Carminho and Pat Metheny Unity Band...quite a line-up!

4 Lisbon Restaurants Not to Miss

by Frank Bruni

Joao Pedro Marnoto for The New York Times

Cervejaria da Esquina

IF I say that I saw the future of Portuguese cooking in a martini glass, you might conclude that I was having drunken visions.

Not at the meal and moment in question: when a server at the chef José Avillez’s brilliant restaurant Belcanto, in Lisbon, set the second in a series of amuse bouches before me...

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/4-lisbon-restaurants-not-to-miss.html?ref=travel

How I Fell for Lisbon 

by FRANK BRUNI, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times,who was the restaurant critic of The Times from June 2004 to August 2009.

Joao Pedro Marnoto for The New York Times

WE meet the places we wind up loving much the way we meet the people we fall for: on purpose and accidentally; at precisely the right moment and exactly the wrong time; in the highest of spirits and the lowest of moods.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/how-i-fell-for-lisbon.html?ref=travel

Lisbon, city of the seven hills [Timelapse]

PORTUGUESE PRIDE: GRANADEIRO WINES, AMONG THE BEST IN THE WORLD

http://www.granadeirovinhos.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=1&lang=en

Henrique Granadeiro is a successful businessman who was born and raised in the southern Portuguese province of Alentejo. Although his professional life took him to Lisbon, he has always felt a strong bond with the region of his birth.  He sat on the Board of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, producer of some of the Alentejo’s finest wines, and played a role in the creation of iconic brands “Cartuxa” and “Pêra Manca”.

In 2001 he decided to pursue his passion for wine by  launching a project in Reguengos, in the heart of Alentejo and not far from his birthplace. Since then he has poured his knowledge and passion into creating the wines that bear his name.