Tag: Portugal
Vinography Images: A Terraced Plot
Art or insanity? Sometimes you look at the effort that humans have put into planting grapevines and you shake your
Vinography Images: Riverlands
Portugal’s Douro region is one of the wine world’s most spectacular. Steep hillsides terraced with vineyards drop precipitously down to
Dealing with Change in the Douro
Look closely enough at the fabric of nearly any major wine region around the world and you’ll find the threads
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 8/25/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 8/18/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 8/11/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Vinography Images: Filling Space
Photographer David Sawyer recalls: “Fitapreta Vinhos Assistant Winemaker Almerindo and I built this barrel room, locating, cleaning, perfectly positioning &
Vinography Images: Elbow Grease
Punchdowns work a little differently when your fermentation vessel is a Talha, a terra cotta amphora about your size. You
Vinography Images: Talha Tales
Winery employee Sebastião fills a talha at Fitapreta Vinehos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. The Romans first introduced the terra cotta
Vinography Images: Must Swirl
Bright crimson must swirls through a tank during a pumpover at Fitapreta Vinhos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. Fitapreta is the
Vinography Images: Lingering Color
A last bit of peachy pink colors the underside of a cloud as light begins to fade above the vineyards
Vinography Images: Fermenting From the Firehose
A pumpover gushes full blast at Fitapreta Vinhos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. Says photographer and harvest intern David Sawyer, “Thoroughly
Vinography Images: Tartaric Trouble
When someone forgets to clean out a tank, mold grows on the tartrates pretty quickly. Photographer David Sawyer says, “It
Vinography Images: Harvest Onwards
Three leaves showing the progression and beauty of a vine from the start to the end of harvest in Portugal’s
Where Did Vinography Disappear To?
I don’t suppose I have many of you checking this site daily for updates, but for those few regular readers
Vinography Images: Messy Business
Fermentation can be a messy business, especially when it takes place outside of huge temperature-controlled steel vats, as seen here
Vinography Images: Vivid Crush
Alicante Bouschet gets dumped into a hopper during harvest at Fitapreta Vinhos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. Alicante Bouschet is a
Vinography Images: Wine Worship
Some people worship wine. Others make wine where some used to worship. The old Chapel at Fitapreta dating back to
Vinography Images: Flame of Freshness
A burning sulfur cake glows blue in the bunghole of an old barrel at Fitapreta Vinhos in the Alentejo region
