{"id":95,"date":"2021-06-01T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostonzest.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:33:00","slug":"well-toast-june-2020-with-beyra-vinhas-velhas-bruto-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bostonzest.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"We’ll Toast June 2020 with Beyra Vinhas Velhas Bruto 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we'll raise glasses of Beyra Vinhas Velhas Bruto 2014<\/a> to the hope that better times will last for us and especially for all our friends in the hospitality industry. This bottle was a gift from a favorite bartender, Gabe Bellegard Bastos. The Boston Globe featured him in a story<\/a> about his joy that regular customers were returning to his bar at Atlantico Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We hope to enjoy this bottle on the roof deck of our building, a place we haven't visited for more than a year. And, if all goes well with other commitments scheduled for the day, we may even be able to invite a friend to share a glass. <\/p>\n

Gabe knows what we like and he shares our enthusiasm for finding wines with a story, a winemaker doing something different, a grape we haven't tried before and from an area, we seldom taste. This bottle ticks off all those things and we thank him for thinking of us.<\/p>\n

Here's to all the people in the food and wine business who share what they know about wine with us and other customers. They are great educators!<\/p>\n

The site Wines of Portugal<\/a> told the story of this sparkler. They wrote:<\/p>\n

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"The renowned winemaker Rui Roboredo Madeira is the pioneer of the "Altitude Wines" concept.<\/p>\n

Beyra is the name of his wine project that results from this concept. Beyra wines are produced in the highest vineyards in Portugal, at over 750 meters of altitude.<\/p>\n

This terroir combined with the cool climate favours:<\/p>\n