Grandjó Late Harvest, 2007, Douro, Portugal

Not a lot of dessert wines can cope with a Porto or a Sauternes. Except the likes of a icewine or a semillon. Like this particular one, the Grandjó Late Harvest, 2007, Douro, Portugal, a superb dessert semillon wine from Real Companhia Velha. This is a spectacular white sweet wine, made out of "noble rot", meaning grapes when picked at a certain late late accurate point producing particularly fine and concentrated sweet wines. Like this one. I had it at home with a superb season typical strawberry milked cake. With my wife Isabel and our good friends from Spain Isabel and Alvaro Sebastián de Erice. Brindando for a better future to a multipolar European Union, where both our countries still do have a lot to bring on, from our milenar standpoints and our centuries old quest for modernity. If not less, and I may be biased on this one (but then, who wouldn't?), because we iberians are home to some of the best wines in the world! Luis Miguel Novais