Wine of the Day: 2015 Lua Cheia em Vinhas Velhas Insurgente

If you haven’t been drinking Portuguese wines, I dare you to try this wine, and not want to buy more! This wine is a 50/50 blend of two indigenous Portuguese grapes – Touriga Nacional and Alfrocheiro.  The grapes are from one of Portugal’s most prominent wine regions, the Dão, located just south of the famous Douro Valley (home of…

Dessert Wine Primer; Part I – Fortified Dessert Wines

Dessert wines are sweet wines served with, or instead of dessert.  Dessert wines are also known as “stickies” because picking the grapes makes the workers hands sticky.  The term originated in Australia, but has become ubiquitously synonymous with dessert wines around the world. There are essentially two types of dessert wines, fortified and late harvest.  In…