Wines from one of the most underrated regions in Europe: Portugal
This week I am focusing on Portugal, one of the most underrated wine regions in Europe and one that you should focus on for value and flavour. With our criminally high wine taxes (the highest in the EU) importers are increasingly looking to Portugal to cover their wines in the €16 and under bracket.
There was a time when a wine from Portugal would be covered with a wax top and be a dried out dusty old thing, but that hasn’t been the case for a few decades. As with Spain, Portugal invested heavily in its wine industry once it joined the EU and these days the wines are clean and bright and packed with fruit. You will have to learn some new grape varieties as less than 10% of the wines here are made with international varieties.
