Marquês de Borba 2006 - Alentejo

Posted on October 24, 2007
Filed Under Now Drinking, Uncategorized

For this week’s “Now Drinking”, we got a fantastic surprise, thanks to our new favourite wine site, Adegga.com. To help pick our wine, we visited Adegga who recommended the popular Portuguese wine “Marquês de Borba“.

So we put our faith and taste buds in the hands of the good folks at Adegga and chose a couple of bottles, from the results of the first one…we’ll be checking back with them again and again.

Marques de Borba Red Wine - Altenjo

A commanding rich wine, full of crushed dark berry flavours with a long smooth and creamy finish. We liked this wine so much there isn’t any left in the bottle to show you the depth of its colour. Guess we’ll just have to get another bottle : )

We enjoyed this bottle with a 3-cheese pasta and tomato sauce, and savory oven baked roast…the Marquês de Borba was perfect. Would highly recommend it with roasts, game, grilled meats and pasta/tomatoes dishes, a really great red that’s warm and powerful. This wine can often be spotted at good local restaurants, so diners and tourists can look for it on the wine menu.

Marquês de Borba

Produced by: João Portugal Ramos
Region: Alentejo, Portugal
Type: Red wine
Grapes: Aragones, Trincadeira

Comments

2 Responses to “Marquês de Borba 2006 - Alentejo”

Judy on October 24th, 2007 11:18 pm

I would love to taste this!!! I grew up with Portuguese neighbors who made their own wine and was it ever good!!! I wonder if we can get this here??? Not much is said about wines from Portugal. Next stop - Totally Wines!
Eddie on October 25th, 2007 12:10 pm

Hi Judy,

This was a really great wine, I don’t know how much of it is exported to the US, but I know Portuguese table wines are strangely little known outside the country but excellent. I’ve traveled a bit across Europe and have to admit the best wines I’ve come across are from France and Portugal. If you want to learn more about Portuguese wines or wines in general, take a visit to www.adegga.com its a brand new project but has some very good recommendations. As we say here when we toast…Saude!

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