Monte da Peceguina Branco 2018

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Coming back to a wine that we have drunk many years ago can, somehow, be similar to revisiting a good friend after many years apart.

The last time I had a Monte da Peceguina was, as far as I remember, back in 2009. How many things can change in such a long time?

It was exactly to find that out that I was looking for when I have decided to order this wine again and try it as soon as the sun threatened to shine in Hamburg.

When I saw its bright yellow colour in my glass I have, for brief instants, feared whether my positive memories of it would still prevail.

After the first sip it was like the magic moment when you find out that you still have something in common with that old friend you haven't seen for such a long time.

Its rich floral bouquet along with a good structure typical of the Alentejo wines,  makes it a perfect match for Mediterranean dishes, inspiring you to reach new sensorial experiences.

Very good acidity and full bodied wine which have invited me to go back to some of my favourite Larkin's works, such as The Explosion:

 On the day of the explosion
 Shadows pointed towards the pithead.
In the sun the slagheap slept.

Down the lane came men in pitboots
Coughing oath-edged talk and pipe-smoke,
Shouldering off the freshened silence.

One chased after rabbits; lost them;
Came back with a nest of lark's eggs;
Showed them; lodged them in the grasses.

So they passed in beards and moleskins
Fathers brothers nicknames laughter
Through the tall gates standing open.

At noon there came a tremor; cows
Stopped chewing for a second; sun
Scarfed as in a heat-haze dimmed.

The dead go on before us, they
Are sitting in God's house in comfort,
We shall see them face to face--

plain as lettering in the chapels
It was said and for a second
Wives saw men of the explosion

Larger than in life they managed--
Gold as on a coin or walking
Somehow from the sun towards them

One showing the eggs unbroken.


16 / 20

Country: Portugal
Region: Alentejo
Grapes: Arinto, Antão Vaz, Roupeiro, Verdelho
13%
Winemaker: Luís Duarte & Nuno Gonzalez
Website: https://www.malhadinhanova.pt/pt/products/vinhos-brancos/monte-da-peceguina-2017-75cl/?variant=622

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