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Wine Spectator – August 2016 Issue – Breaking the Mold | By Kim Marcus

Portugal's white wines surge in quality as vintners exploit older vineyards in the Douro and beyond.

Portugal's Douro River Valley contains an amazing mix of terroirs where native grapes have adapted to searing summer heat to produce world-class red table wines. And when it comes to making intensely flavorful and concentrated Ports in the deepest reaches of the Douro gorge, the hotter the better. 

Full article at:  winespectator.com

VISÃO Se7e – 5 Sparklings with summer flavor | By Manuel Gonçalves da Silva

The winemaker Celso Pereira confirms. For this reason, he formed a trilogy and drew a sparkling whose production increased in the classical methods of Champagne. The name is Vertice Cuvée non vintage, a sparkling from Caves Transmontanas produced in the Douro that meets the 2009 harvest, 2010 and 2011, considered the best years for Celso Pereira, the winemaker, who led the three crops a traineeship in stainless steel vats and French oak barrels used. Then made them go through a stage in the bottle that was beyond the three years, which ended with the disgorging (consists of removing the capsule and the deposit - which is in contact with the neck, because the bottles are placed "head "down - simultaneously and once) in the end of 2015. Thus was born a sparkling who wanted versatile because both can serve as appetizer in a celebratory or a special occasion meal, as recommended to accompany fish dishes or poultry, and at the right temperature. We recall that the Vertice was born in 1989 in the most climactic slopes located more than 550 meters of Cima Corgo, one of the sub-regions of the oldest demarcated wine region in the world, and in the genesis of the traditional method of French sparkling – the méthode champenoise. Let's drink!