Essência do Vinho - Redealed Top 10 Portuguese Wines

Two Douro wines and one Madeira Wine are the big winners

It is already known the "TOP 10 Portuguese Wines", obtained in the event ESSÊNCIA DO VINHO - PORTO. Wines from the Douro and Madeira regions are the big winners.

The red wine that collected jurors' preferences was the Passagem Grande Reserva 2009, prepared by Quinta das Bandeiras, from very recent vineyards planted in the Upper Douro. Also in the Douro, but in Santa Marta de Penaguião, there is the white wine that obtained the highest accolades, Alves de Sousa Personal 2008. Among the fortified wines, the Barbeito 30 Years Malvasia Vó Vera was the best scored.

The remaining "TOP 10 Portuguese Wines" consists of: 

Quinta de Santiago Alvarinho Reserva 2015, prepared by Nenúfar Real, in Monção, Vinhos Verdes, (second highest white wine); Menino António Alicante Bouschet 2014, produced in Albernôa, Alentejo, by Herdade da Malhadinha Nova (2nd red); Quinta da Touriga Chã 2014, produced by Jorge Rosas in the Douro Superior (3rd red wine); And in the fourth place among the red wines, two ex-aequo - Pedra Cancela Amplitude 2013, elaborated by the Pedra Cancela project in Silgueiros, Dão, and Chryseia 2014, of the Prats & Symington partnership in the Douro. Among the fortified wines, Kopke Colheita 1957, a tawny Port of Sogevinus Fine Wines (2nd place) and Bacalhôa Moscatel de Setúbal Superior 20 Anos 1995, from Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal, obtained in the Peninsula of Setúbal (3rd fortified wine). 

Wine had critics of wine and sommeliers from Portugal, Spain, UK, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and Brazil.

Melhor do Ano 2016

Vinho Homenagem 2011 da Quinta do Pôpa eleito “Melhor do Ano 2016”

Quinta do Pôpa Tribute Red wine 2011, produced in Tabuaço, in the Alto Douro wine region, has just been awarded the "Best of the Year 2016" by the "Revista de Vinhos", which nominates the best wines from each wine region proven by the publication Throughout the year. The distinction falls into the category "The Best of Portugal".

The name and history of this farm symbolize the realization of a dream, which has passed from generation to generation. Therefore, in the future, according to a statement sent to the newsrooms, the objective is to make this wine, the Selection range, "the greatest of tributes and a tribute to man [Francisco Ferreira, better known as Pôpa, grandfather of Stéphane and Vanessa Ferreira, Current owner of the property], to the dream he carried and to all those who made Quinta do Pôpa one of the leading producers of reference of the moment."