Muros Antigos, Alvarinho, Vinho Verde, White, 2011, Portugal

Most of you are already familiar with the iphone ad where John Malkovich fails to puzzle Siri with an odd word: linguica! And yes, like the newspapers already put it: "you are not the only person wondering what linguica is"... Some of you most travelled guys and g'lls already know that the correct spelling would be linguiça, since the word and the sausage behind it are Portuguese all over. Malkovich just knows it well because he is a Portugal lover. And co-owner to grand Lisbon restaurant Bica do Sapato. "To know, is to go... when your heart resides there" (to put it into Roddy Frame's Aztec Camera pop band song words). Muros Antigos, white, Vinho Verde, Alvarinho, 2011, from northern Portugal, by great wine maker Anselmo Mendes, is a superb light and fresh strong body white wine. I had Muros Antigos at Bica do Sapato with my good wordly friend Durval Noronha Goyos, from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Muros Antigos means "old walls" and I guess Siri wouldn't have matched it with the same northern Portugal's original ancestral linguiça saussage deli. I can only presume I have beated Siri (but not Malkovich), on this one. For the time being, I reckon. Luis Miguel Novais.