Monte da Peceguina 2017

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Having some difficulties which wine would better match the codfish I had prepared for dinner, I have decided to ask my 3-year-old daughter to help me.

 These sort of decisions often need a mix of uninterested and impartial amount of luck to come to a safe port. When seeing the bottle of Monte da Peceguina, there was no doubts as she promptly exclaimed: Oh papa, you have bought my favourite wine!!

Decided to take this as a sign, I have put the other bottle away and opened it while she kept on looking at the butterfly of the label with a smile in her mouth.

What for a better way to open a bottle, than with a smile?

In the nose we are allowed to feel quite an impressive bouquet of berries along with some exotic scents such as liquorice. In the mouth this suggestion consubstantiates and it is quite a fresh wine despite its 14,5%. Strong fruits and a long ending, making me recall the long ends of the day from Alentejo.

It was quite a perfect combination for some codfish cooked in a clay pot in a perfect sensorial journey back to my origins.

Definitely a wine that from time to time is worth to go back to.

To match it, I have chose the delicacy of one of Jack Kerouac´s haikus:

One flower
on the cliffside
Nodding at the canyon



17/20
Country: Portugal
Region: Alentejo
Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Syrah, Aragonez, Alicante Bouschet, Cabernet Sauvignon
14,5 %
Winemaker: Luis Duarte
Website: https://www.malhadinhanova.pt/pt/
Location: Hamburg, Germany

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