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Master of Wine Tastes Brazilian Wine for the First Time

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I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony
I have used the following glass in this video: Spiegelau Definition Universal Glass
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:

Don Guerino Chardonnay Brut, Serra Gaucha, Brazil
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/don+guerino+brut+chard+serra+gauche+brazil?referring_site=KSB

Salton Brut Rose, Serra Gaucha, Brazil
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/salton+brut+rose+serra+gauche+brazil?referring_site=KSB

2022 Pizzato Semillon, Vale dos Vinhedos, Brazil
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/pizzato+semillon+vale+dos+vinedo+serra+gauche+brazil/2022?referring_site=KSB

2021 Vinhas do Tempo Chardonnay Monte Bello Do Sul, Brazil

2018 Casa Pedrucci Reserva Tinto, Serra Gaucha, Brazil
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/casa+pedrucci+rsrv+tinto+serra+gauche+brazil/2018?referring_site=KSB

2013 Lidio Carraro Grande Vindima Quorum, Vale dos Vinhedos, Brazil
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/lidio+carano+grand+vendemia+quorum+vale+dos+vinedo+serra+gauche+brazil/2013?referring_site=KSB

2022 Miolo Lote 43, Vale dos Vinhedos, Brazil
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/miolo+43+vale+dos+vinedo+serra+gauche+brazil/2022?referring_site=KSB

The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.

When you think of Brazil – what comes to mind? Football, the Amazon rainforest, Carnival, Tropical weather, and Caipirinhas. Brazil is the sixth largest wine producer in the Southern Hemisphere with 81,000 ha under vine and over 1.100 wineries. Yet, most people, including me, never connected the country to wine but maybe it is time to change that.

So let me taste my first wines from Brazil especially because many of you have asked me again and again to do so… The first vines arrived in Brazil in the 16th century, but it was not easy to cultivate the vine in the country’s mainly hot and humid climate. More successful than the fragile European Vitis Vinfera vines were the sturdy and high-yielding Hybrids Concord, Isabel, and Niagara and even today most of the vineyards in Brazil are planted to non-vinifera varietals.

However, Brazil also offers the right conditions for vinifera vines if you look carefully. The country is huge and the climatic conditions between the north and the south are very different.
90% of Brazilian wine production takes place in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This is the southernmost state of Brazil, and it is neighboring the more famous wine-producing countries Argentina and Uruguay.

The country’s wine industry is focused on sparkling wines, but its 10 growing regions allow for the production of various styles and the most widely planted vinifera grapes cover a lot of ground in terms of wine styles with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir for reds, and Chardonnay, Moscato Bianco and Glera for whites.

28 Comments

  5. @felipeviegascabeca

    Awesome video, Mr. Baum. Have been waiting for a long time to see you try some of our gems. The best we have to offer were definitely not featured in the vídeo, for the Syrah wines from São Paulo and Minas Gerais done using winter harvest have been really stealing the show with a very unique terroir of high altitude, but still amazing to see Brazil explored a bit by our favorite wine expert. Thanks for believing we could be up to the challenge ❤

  6. @thaiss354

    Hi, Konstantin! I really loved to see you tasting some Brazilian wine for the first time. The Lidio Carraro's wine you tasted most likely wasn't aged in oak, as Lidio Carraro winery adopts a "purist" philosophy. They don't use oak and oenological correction techniques in order to produce minimal intervention wines.

  7. @vpmnh

    I think you should choose better sparkling wines, they aren’t on the same level of the red ones and they costs 1/6 price of those wines… Our terroir is better for Sparkling, so we have a lot of good options here. I think you should choose some red wines made by winter harvest also, some Syrah for example…

  9. @briand2614

    It took a minute for your tag line to sink in, then it occurred to me I’ve never had a Brazilian wine. Hmmmm.

  10. @fabiomacedo1681

    I suggest you to try sparkling wine from Pinto Bandeira , reds from Serra Catarinense and Syrah from São Paulo and Minas Gerais grown using "terroir de inverno" method ( winter terroir)

  13. @garysargent9434

    Great work on the channel. We operate wine tourism in Brazil and you REALLY need to try traditional method sparkling, Merlot from Serra Gaucha and also the Italian varieties from the Serra Catarinense….Brazil has much to offer, and the wine tourism infrastructure is superb.

  14. @gabrielamadordelara5064

    Dear Konstantin, cheers for the initiative and for assessing our wines with honesty and the best you can get. Brazilian wines are very tricky to fing in Germany, and this sample was relatively fair to our most prominent producers. Surely a few things could be added, mostly in terms of sparkling (these were fairly simple ones), but in general terms, it’s a good introduction to your viewers around the globe. Hope you soon travel to Brazil and adventure yourself our vineyards and our stunning cuisine. Evoé

  15. @eduardoaraujosommelier

    Vinhas do Tempo rocks! Nice to see some of the new open minded producers in the mix! Perfect reduction, it feels like those natural white Burg from 2017, cashew fruit all the way! Best white in Brazil! Cheers!

  18. @Rafael-Castro

    Happy to see Konstantin tates brazilian wine. The line up could improve a lot whith someone who know more the country.
    One note, Lidio Carraro dont use oak in any of their wines, but they manage to get some smokness, some toastness in the wine that fita the taste profile of oak.
    Should trie brazlian wine some other times. Cheers

  26. @LadyAceRoxy

    Super interesting!
    I’ve only been able to try one Brazilian wine so far since they are very hard to find here! It was a dry moscato and it was really good with lovely aromatics! I have read the sparkling wines are really good and hope to find one in future. Awesome that you were able to find so many of these!

  27. @nicolomariamascaretti676

    I love this videos on less known wine regions/countries. I've personally tasted a Brazilian wine for for the first time last year at Vinitaly. I wasn't impressed in that occasion because the Borrdeaux blend that I had tasted was completely lacking of acidity. I would love to taste more Brazilian wines in the future!

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