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Scary fish and Churchill’s port & wines

Apr 11, 12 Scary fish and Churchill’s port & wines

Posted by in Food and Wine, Portugal, Travel

EEEEKKKKKK! That is one scary looking fish. I bet you’re wondering what exactly it has to do with wine. Well, that is what greeted me after my tour of the cellars of Churchill’s Port’s new visitor centre and lodge in Gaia, Portugal. It’s not some mutant fished out of a polluted river in South East Asia, it...

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Barrel samples from Quinta Vale d. Maria, Douro Valley, Portugal

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Tiago Alves do Sousa, talking about his old vines wine, Abandonado 2009

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Tiago Alves do Sousa, talking about the vineyards of the Douro Valley

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sampling 100 year old port straight from the barrel

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Jorge Serodio Borges, winemaker Wine & Sol

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George Sandeman and his 20 yr old tawny

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Elevator at The Yeatman

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Beatriz Machado, Wine Director of The Yeatman

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Adrian Bridge, CEO, The Yeatman, Porto

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