The Big Portuguese Wine Adventure

The Big Portuguese Wine Adventure

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Episode 1: Starting local
Vicentino Vineyard
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29:49
Introducing Allan Tay-Joe
And how Portuguese wines are off the charts
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Hard Graft
Grapes, vines and the pesky pests that pester them
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Alastair Leithead
2
The Rolling Stones and a Stairway to Heaven
The Portuguese monastery where two great stories converge
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Alastair Leithead
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Episode 2: Deep in Alentejo Wine Country
The story of a region told through Esporão and three of its iconic winemakers
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Alastair Leithead
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29:31
Episode 8: The Reddest Grape
Mouchão and the French grape that Portugal has made its own
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Alastair Leithead
30:36
Episode 7: Tell it how it is
Selling wine with pigs and oak trees
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28:36
Podcast Trailer
Ana and Al’s Big Portuguese Wine Adventure is launching in May 2024
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Alastair Leithead
3:13
Remember me?
A new surge of writing about Alentejo's wines
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Alastair Leithead
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Alentejo in the Sun
We're officially now "one of the best wine destinations in the world"
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Episode 4: Going Roman
Heading to the town that still makes wine the Roman way
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Alastair Leithead
33:12
BONUS EPISODE: Vicentino
Take a deeper dive into our most local winery
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Alastair Leithead
13:35
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