The president of the Oporto British Association, my good friend José Alvares Ribeiro, invited me to the Factory House Wine Lunch with winemaker Rui Reguinga this past 2014.3.12. The weekly wine luncheon at the Factory House is a tradition since 19th century. Centered in the Port and Douro wine region, sometimes it widens itself up to other wine frontiers. Such was the case with winemaker Rui Reguinga's Alentejo highly commendable productions tasted that day:
- Terrenus, 2011, White
- Terrenus, 2010, Red
- Tributo, 2012, Red
Terrenus, 2010, Red, is an exquisite wine. It mixes Alentejo excellent winemaking tradition of local varieties with an unexpected flavour from highland vineyards. I confess I had never tasted (nor imagined possible) Alentejo wine other than from the low dry extensive lands of that region. Reguinga's old vineyards, set high at Serra de Sao Mamede, do make a difference. A nice surprise.
Luis Miguel Novais
