The wine for the evening was the 2003 Esporao Trincadeira 2003. I purchased this wine from Domaine547 for $24.99, it clocked in at 14.5% alcohol by volume, hails from Portugal, and I believe it had a real cork closure, though to be honest I didn't write it down. (For some reason my Firefox spell check has decided that it doesn't like contractions anymore...)
On the nose I found blueberry, spice, blackberry, plum, raisins, prunes, vanilla, and toast. The wine's nose struck me as a combination of a Syrah and Petite Sirah. I purchased this bottle in my quest to try some new varietals, so I had absolutely no expectations leading into trying the Trincadeira grape, nor do I have anything to compare it to!
In the mouth I got flavors of blueberry, plum, blackberry, spice, baking spice, and raisins. The wine had huge tannins. It was full in the mouth, fruity up front, but drying in the back palate. I was really struck by the blueberry in this wine, making me lean almost toward it being kind of Peite Sirah like.We drank this on its own, but I think with the big tannins it would have shown with a nice thick steak or a rack of lamb.
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It's always fun to try something new, I have to try this as well...you're a trailblazer.
9/1/08, 11:19 AM
All of Esporão wines come with real cork enclosure. The "Herdade do Esporão" is located in Alentejo region in the beautiful village os Reguengos de Monsaraz. Alentejo is the biggest cork producer in Portugal hence in the world.
Are you well impressed when a wine comes with a real cork enclosure?
9/1/08, 1:19 PM
Noble Pig, I'm inching my way towards drinking 100 grapes for the Century Club....
Thanks for the info Milton. Not necessarily impressed per se, I like to note it to see if I notice any trends in the number of wines coming under different closures. However, I do much prefer cork to the plastic stoppers I sometimes see, can't stand those things!
9/5/08, 9:29 AM
Sonadora,
Let me give you another reason to love cork stoppers: please visit may blog (I'm a new blogger...) and click the link "Save Miguel". It´s a very interesting site about the cork stoppers! ;)
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9/15/08, 7:35 PM
I stopped by, very funny Milton!
9/28/08, 1:19 PM