Wine Fictions

When I have started wondering why I like certain kind of wines, it soon became clear to me that I had in the Douro reds a source of infinite offer that really pleased me. The effect of the schist soils provokes in me a whole sensory experience that awakes some of my deepest feelings and sensations. Sure is that grapes like Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca or Tinta Roriz, which in Spain is known as Tempranillo do play a major role, but the soil does establish a special connection to real essence of the wine.  I know that I what I have written may sound rather esoteric, but wine is not always a completely exact science and, in fact, the best moments are the ones that you manage to disconnect what is your conscious perception of a wine's quality and let yourself go in the pleasure that it can grant you. As I have written before, the Douro reds were my first wine passion. Being so, I soon grew curious to know how this terroir expressed itself on the other side of the border in Ribera d...