Wine of the Week / Viikon viini - Duque de Viseu 1999

If The Duke
Doesn't Warm You Up
Put The Mirror
Back Into The Frame
And Look Only At The Flame

DUQUE DE VISEU 1999
Touriga Nacional & Tinta Roriz
VINHOS SOGRAPE
DÃO - PORTUGAL

Texts & visuals
©Hannu
Lehmusvuori

El Celler Catala

Once upon a time there was the Roman Empire. (You know those men with metal helmets topped with purple plumes in Iroquois style, and armour from shoulders to breast and waist, and bare legs ending down in boots.) - That Empire had a mission. That mission was to conquer all the known world to be the Kingdom of Dionysos. The Empire, it's Emperors, and all the military down to the humblest man on foot, the necessary midwifes and cattle slaughterers following the army, all the lot may have thought that their mission was to bring Roman civilization to the savages. But, once again, aims didn't prove ends.

From Gallia to Germania and from Hungaria to Iberia we can see what happened. The logic of Dionysos conquered. The army planted vines around every garrison it settled in. And after the inevitable collapse of the Empire, it's inheriting empire, the Roman church, finalized the mission with it's ownership of land, it's monasteries, it's army of cloaked, silent men of great viticultural skills - men who had only time because of being freed from women to concentrate on wine and song...

From the deep nose to the black taste, and everything in between, of this Duque de Viseu we owe to the turmoils of an Empire that near-cloned Greek habits, wisdom, gods... (though sometimes leaning a bit too much on the Spartan side of it, but having exceptions) - and had a mission to spread it around all the known world.

Only after that comes the inevitable history of exchanging experiences with grape varieties among neighbours, and coming up with a mix of Touriga Nacional (a portwine grape) and Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo). - With mixes like that you'll get the inevitable result of a rich, black taste - when done right.

Next week should ofcourse cover the Middle Ages and Feodalism (and it's aristocracy) in the history of wine (and many more finer details). But I can't promise you that. It may happen that I'll try to cover Tolkien's Middle Earth instead ;-)

Meanwhile I'll uncork another Duque de Viseu from the land of cork, and just enjoy myself.

-Hannu

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