Your Essential Guide to Portuguese Wines: Ports & Beyond…

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After our tours of some of the best wine regions of France and Italy, and before moving on to Spain, yes, we’re looking at all of the best wines in the world and explaining them, I want to have a little stopover with you in a country that is dear to the Alti Wine Exchange, and a country that should definitely have more recognition on the international wine scene. The wines of Portugal are overall fantastic, often of incredible value for money, generally deep and quite complex, they just need to be understood better to be enjoyed more by those in the know. Hopefully, you will be one of us after this video. Because yes, there is way more to Portuguese wine than just Ports, as we’ll see today. The dry wines of Portugal are incredibly varied and fascinating to explore. So, let’s have a quick overview of what you’re missing out on if you don’t know much about Portuguese wines yet. This is, your essential guide to start understanding Portugal and its Vinhos.
00:00 - Intro
01:55 - Quick Word on Portuguese Ports
05:00 - Overview of Portugal's Wine Regions
12:47 - Conclusion

[@RedRoverTW]

I'm a fan of many global wine producing regions, but Portuguese wines are my favorite. The country has so many fantastic domestic grape varieties that aren't understood internationally, and they use them to make exceptional wines at every price level. I almost hope that they stay under the radar so I can continue to enjoy their amazing wines at such low price points. Obrigado!

[@YouTubeJulien]

Cheers Shawn :) I've heard you 😊🙏🥂

[@petercarvalho1931]

I'm loving seeing these videos. But I must say, the Vinho Verde region is mostly if not all granitic soil, very mineral, very acidic but balanced fresh wines. The Douro region is mostly xist stone, which definetely (with the climate) helps to get this deepness associated with DOC Douro wines.
Vinho Verde has much more versatility than is usually known. I challenge you to take a look at them. Anselmo Mendes, one great agent in the revival of Vinho Verde. Check is wines out.

[@nunopereira265]

Yes there is a lot more about my country wine then the port and thank you for showing everyone how rich is our wine land

That was very good... ;-) «the elephant in the room» , and absolutely true.It's like saying that the Pastel de Nata it's the only Sweet Pastry in Portugal...well, we have such an Enormous Variety of Pastries and Delicious Food and Wines that is almost impossible to name everything. I can understand that for foreigners is very difficult to imagine that such a physically small Country is so Vast in Almost Everything... Portugal is an Ancestral Nation(in fact The Oldest Nation in Europe) so injustly underrated and with a lot of preconceived Ignorance ...but, oh well, thanks God there are people like you that Wish To Know More and Taste The Good Things in Life Like Portugal is!

[@AltiWineExchange]

Thanks Rogerio :) I appreciate your kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video. Wish more people would see this, glad to hear the video might help 🙏😊🍷

[@PantherBRolex]

Great job. Five stars.

[@YouTubeJulien]

TY Joe :)

[@antonioribeiro2978]

very well my friend.
greetings from Portugal.

[@YouTubeJulien]

cheers Antonio 😊🍷

[@Michael-tz7tj]

Hey Julien, did you get around to making a video focusing solely on Port wines?

[@YouTubeJulien]

Hi Michael, yes, it's a whole series, starting here: th-cam.com/video/g_FCveLvWOA/w-d-xo.html
Hope this works for you :) Cheers!

[@ricknelsteel]

Great videos

[@headlessgourmand8876]

Well said difficult to digest local grapes I have been struggling forever

[@asifrajani7297]

Very good intro.

[@AltiWineExchange]

Thanks Asif! Appreciated :)

[@MrPappyHappy]

Hi, I would like to use some of your video footage for a personal video project. Where can I contact you?

[@YouTubeJulien]

Hi Matthieu, DM on Twitter perhaps twitter.com/JMiquelWine

[@1Oliveiraa]

Nice overview, you should do a wine tasting with good wines from the different regions

[@Soulvinum]

As a WSET student it's sad why portugal is not so included...portugal is neck to neck to France or any part of the world wines...so rich, so intense,so elegant..im not talking about fortified wines.the portuguese don't drink fortified wines.portuguese drink vinho verde, white,rose wine and red.
Portuguese don't care about port.
Go to Alentejo or bairrada or beira alta wines and you will be surprised.

[@ericifune5543]

Madeira?

[@torbjornkarlsen]

Yes please