Peg Hanssen

9.8

Preparing for our adventure to Portugal Surdyks’ Recommendation:
(Douro) Portugal is a prolific wine country, best known for its sweet dessert wine - Port. World famous in its many styles, Port is sweet and fortified, prized for its rich flavors and lush texture. Portugal also has fabulous dry red wine. Dow’s “Vale do Bomfim” is made with the same grapes and sourced from the same historic Douro Valley that produces Dow’s great Ports. Portugal’s indigenous grapes – Tinta Barroca, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Tinto Cão – are names that should pique your interest and draw you to this imported discovery. Picked by hand and manually sorted with great care, the grapes are fermented in small vats. The resulting wine has complexity and style. Portugal’s Douro Valley has consistently good climate and growing conditions almost every year. The flavors are dynamic and the tannic structure is soft and silky. This is a really good wine for all occasions, with an affordable price and value.
$8.49 Spring 2017 ($14.49) — 8 years ago

Mallika Doss

8.9

Medium bodied and medium acidity. Nice finish. — 9 years ago

nurbS

9.1

🌸🌷🍏🍍🌾👒 indigenous yeasts bear fine lees and a sweet, shiny bouquet. — 9 years ago

Lori Sullivan

9.0

One of my new fave Greek wines. Nicely balanced between funk & citrus. — 10 years ago

Jim Takada

9.0

Fruity but has indigenous feel. — 11 years ago

Steve Matthiasson

Owner/Winemaker Matthiasson Wines

8.9

Rate indigenous Italian variety, great seafood wine, super value — 12 years ago

Chris Stickney

9.5

Very nice blend...dark fruits and oak. — 8 years ago

Dave Genevro

9.4

Aromas of citrus flowers, lemongrass and faint lighter fluid; lime, lemon, with juicy and saliva building acidity. I feel like the wood influence helped the acids from getting too crazy in it's youth. I can't wait to try the second bottle years from now. Fruit from the second oldest known Riesling vineyard in CA, planted in 1963. Granite and limestone soils...that are unmistakably present in the wine, in both the nose and mouth feel. Own rooted, cared and tended to by Pat Wirz. Morgan used indigenous yeasts and aged it partly in neutral french oak casks. 13.5% ABV. — 9 years ago

Daragh Hoey

9.2

Has that beautiful rusty outer hue that I love in good Italian wine, along with the accompanying bricky sourness. Indigenous grape to Sardinia. Plenty of spice and meat. Smells and tastes unmistakably of Italy. — 9 years ago

B Williams

9.3

Excellent wine. Had with spaghetti. Inexpensive and will buy more. — 9 years ago

Ryan Vento

9.5

The indigenous tribe that lives in our wine locker. Delightful as always. — 10 years ago

with Krystal

Gustavo Sotelo

9.1

One of my favorite Mencia producers in Ribeira Sacra. Also one if my fav indigenous varieties in Spain. Seek it out! — 11 years ago

Manny Jemente

9.3

What an interesting wine! I love when California winemakers step outside of the box and make wine from indigenous Italian grape varieties. This wine smells like red fruit and hay. — 12 years ago

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Greg Gibson ✔

9.2

I thoroughly enjoyed this juice. Mango, limestone minerality, a tough of herbaceous notes on the backend. Overall a great, complex wine made from a handful of interesting, indigenous varietals along with the powerhouse that is Pinot Gris. — 9 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.0

Pretty like violets & wrought iron steel; soft tannins but with structured acidity & smooth textures. I'd only had Negrette from Ken Volk in Cali, but we're celebrating the defeat of Le Pen with an indigenous French wonder — 9 years ago

with Christie

Rob D

9.0

Hi times $13.98 great value. Nice wine — 9 years ago

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Kris tighe

8.9

Nice and surprising tropical, good on a hot day. Just had it with spicy homemade Saag Paneer and it complemented nicely. Mango and tart grapefruit on the palate, light pear and peach on the nose. Not as dry as expected. — 10 years ago

Robert Lim

9.0

Crooked Stave, how do I love you? Let me count the ways — 10 years ago

Steve Matthiasson

Owner/Winemaker Matthiasson Wines

9.2

Ancient indigenous grape variety, fruity, very structured though, worth experiencing. — 11 years ago

Kristen Murphy Caldecutt

Community Manager SevenFifty

10

For nerd factor- awesome white wine, using only indigenous Portuguese grapes (Bical, Sercial, & Sercialinho). — 13 years ago