I asked my friend Tibor (Tibor Juhász) to set up an appointment with Péter Vida, from the Vida Winery as I tasted some of his wines but never had met or visited the winery. I had a kind of feeling it its going to be exciting and beside gathering knowledge a definitive experience as well. And I was right…

17/07/09

Vida Winery

After Argentina and Chile Brazil is the third biggest grape growing and wine producing county in South America but only 10% of it is vitis vinifera. There is (or to be correct: there would be) a huge potential domestic market with such a population. Reality is quite something different, however.

I was suppose to do an internship in the Miolo Winery. But somehow it did not quite worked out the way we all wanted, anyway as I was already in Porto Alegre, Tibor Lakatos former wine maker in Brazil persuaded me to pay Miolo a visit. It would help to extend my knowledge on Brazilian wine, particularly when it comes to quality wine and it certainly did…

Last month a friend of mine from Bangkok who by the way appreciates good wine told me enthusiastically about a wine which he had tasted, a late harvest „Tokajsky“ wine, and he found it goes rather well with the sweet-sour crab in coconut milk and then he asked me whether I would know it?

It was in one of the bars in Goethe Street in Porto Alegre (or Göcs as the Brazilian taxi driver said it) that I came across with the Aurora wines, pretty decent Cabernet Sauvignon as I said to myself I made a mental note why not see it for myself if I go to Bento Goncalves.

Cooperativa Vinicola Aurora
Miolo

Uruguay is the forth largest wine producer in South America with 8500 ha of vines planted and around 270 wineries (but much more smaller producers) 20 of them exporting.

My first thought when I heard Uruguay and wine, was: what the heck? They don’t produce wine, or do they?! It was on the London Wine Fair (LIWSF) back in 2008 that I met Juan Andrés Marichal, from the Bodega Marichal. It was here that I started to discover the new possibilities of Tannat and a lot more…

Tasted wines 07/04/09
Bodegas Marichal