The Portugese make great wines, and if I drank wine every day it would be more realistic for me to sample more of them. Unfortunately time and health do not permit me to imbibe daily, and thus, my palate sometimes becomes limited to the regions of the wine world about which I am passionate.
Portugese wine tends to stump people a lot: the grape varietals and regions are unfamiliar, and sometimes the low prices of Portugese wine causes people to assume the quality is lacking.
One recent find was from In Fine Spirits in Andersonville, called Berco de Infante Reserva 2007 and it goes for . It is from a region called Estremadura, on the Atlantic coast of Portugal where the land bulges out slightly. The wine has a nice acidity, not unlike Italian wines, and is composed of the Castelao and Aragonez grapes. It is a medium bodied red, purplish in color with notes of dates and prunes. It goes well with lamb and poultry. Best of all, it normally retails for under $10.
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