Almost half of Brazil’s wine production is sparkling wine, but the country’s producers also make full-bodied reds and so called winter wine
There’s more to Brazil than carnival and football – it’s time to bang the drum for the country’s wine, too.There’s more to Brazil than carnival and football – it’s time to bang the drum for the country’s wine, too.
iven the current interest in less familiar wine-producing regions, it’s surprising that virtually no one in the UK is stocking Brazilian wines. Well, it’s surprising to me, anyway. You might think – and quite rightly – thatis more about coffee and cachaça; also, that vast swathes of the country are tropical or sub-tropical, which is not great for grape growing.That said, Brazil is vast, and Rio Grande do Sul, an area to the south, is the centre of the country’s wine industry.
I went to Brazil last year – with some scepticism, I must admit – and was amazed to discover that almost half the country’s wine production was sparkling . Brazil also produces similarly full-bodied reds to its neighbours over the border in Argentina and Uruguay, though admittedly less consistently and inexpensively.
That apart, there is also a fair bit of innovative winemaking going on in Brazil, including quite a few natural wines and” – that is, vines that are tricked into shedding their leaves and budding again in autumn, rather than spring, because the Brazilian winter is generally drier than its summer. It must therefore be frustrating for growers that most restaurants and supermarket shelves in Brazil are still stacked with bottles from Argentina and Chile.
While I hope you might be inclined to give Brazil’s winemakers a helping hand, I’m conscious that its wines don’t come cheap, so I’m also going to mention a Chilean option this week: it’s a new addition to the Co-op’s Irresistible range, a generous, gutsy , 14%. Cemento may not be the most engaging name for a wine, but this is a gorgeous, juicy blend of cabernet franc, malbec and tannat. Great barbecue drinking., 11%.
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