Top 10 Portuguese Wines at Essencia do Vinho 2009(2)

Best White Wine

Soalheiro Alvarinho 2007 from Antonio Esteves Ferreira (Vinho Verde)

Best Red Wines

1. Scala Coeli 2006 from Fundacao Eugenio Almeida (Alentejo)
2. Vinhas da Ira 2006 from Henrique Jose de La Puente Sancho Uva (Alentejo)
3. Quinta Vale D. Maria 2006 from Lemos & Van Zeller (Douro)
4. Quinta das Tecedeiras Reserva 2006 from Global Wines (Douro)
5. Quanta Terra 2006 from Quanta Terra (Douro)
6. Herdade dos Grous Reserva 2006 from Herdade dos Grous (Alentejo)
7. CV 2006 from Lemos & Van Zeller (Douro)

Vintage Port Wines

1. Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage from Symington Family Estates
2. Dow’s Quinta Senhora da Ribeira Vintage from Symington Family Estates

However, I would feel badly if I didn’t give you a very short recap of our workshop here in Viniportugal’s Sala Ogival on the first floor of the Palacio de Bolsa. Held yesterday at 6 in a space dedicated to tasting and not necessarily for a lecture, it ironically went off without a hitch. Approximately 50 people poured into the Kermit the Frog green tasting room (the less known color in crayola crayon box), eager to hear more about…well, I’m not convinced that they had a clue as to what the workshop was on, but I think the word “internet” sparked their interest.

As I jumped between our live blog (read a replay here) and twitter, while Andre walked around the tasting room streaming live video, Ryan did his level-headed best to convey the future of social media and blogging. However, between our array of gadgets, and words such as Able Grape, Twitter, Open Wine Consortium and YouTube, I think our 50 minute presentation turned many people’s concept of wine marketing into swiss cheese. Understandably, this was the very first workshop of its kind in Portugal, and we fully expect to have many people a little confused as to its significance. But with any luck, we’ll be back, providing Portugal with more internet tricks and tools at their disposal. We thank Viniportugal for letting us participate at Essencia do Vinho and will publishing a whole range of videos in the following week.

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