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		<title>Portugal: the Land that Time Forgot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiltonPires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wine region]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alentejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bairrada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dão]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Portugal tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tinta roriz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this interesting view of Portugal on &#8220;Grapes and Grains&#8221; blog:
&#8220;From the moment my foot hit the tarmac upon debarking from the plane, I knew I was in a different world.  The warm Portuguese sun hit me square in the face and I had one of those palpable moments in life that you never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=322&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distiller &#8211; Copper alembic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[alambique]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following last year&#8217;s &#8220;Distilling &#8211; Alambique&#8221; post, this year I made a video of the distilling process.

The distiller is composed of 1 boiler, 2 columns and 2 condensers.
The distiller uses 2 columns simultaneously or on a flip-flop system – while one column is in use the other one is being discharged and reloaded. To facilitate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=315&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRUSHER-DESTEMMER</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiltonPires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vineyard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crusher-destemmer is the first machine to be found in the winery and it&#8217;s located outside of  it so the grapes can be easily unloaded.
In small wineries like mine, the crusher-destemmer is a small machine placed near or over the &#8220;lagar&#8220;.
This machine pulls the grapes to the rollers where the berries are crushed, then separates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=308&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 VINDIMA</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/2009-vindima/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiltonPires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year I harvested last 27th September. 2009 was a great year without any diseases affecting  the  good  ripening of the grapes.
I harvested 380 kg of Touriga Nacional and 380 kg of Tinta Roriz (&#8220;Tempranillo&#8221;). I had a 7% global production increase.

Posted in Harvest, Varieties, Vineyard Tagged: grape harvest, tempranillo, tinta roriz, Touriga Nacional, vindima [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=304&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lagar was on pause</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/lagar-was-on-pause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiltonPires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malolactic fermentation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lagar has been on pause&#8230; Things didn’t go as planned. MLF started but never ended so the wine has 2.0 mg/l of malic acid…
This blog is about a wine from vine to bottle so while I was wondering what to do with it, I didn’t feel motivated to post, so the blog was on pause.
Now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=296&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leitão da Bairrada</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/leitao-da-bairrada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[leitão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leitão da bairrada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pairing wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piglet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leitão is the most important gastronomic tradition in Bairrada.
I’ll show you how to prepare and roast a perfect Leitão da Bairrada.
We buy the piglet on the local slaughter house so it comes clean and ready to prepare.
First of all we insert a stainless steel tube from the tail to the mouth and tight it firmly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=292&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Molhos de vides&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/molhos-de-vides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiltonPires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pruning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vineyard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leitão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[molho de vides]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens to the vine branches cut of in pruning?

The vine is called &#8220;videira&#8221; and the cut branches are called &#8220;vides&#8221;. The &#8220;vides&#8221; left in the ground after pruning are collected in packages and tied up with a &#8220;verga&#8221;. These packages of branches &#8211; &#8220;vides&#8221; &#8211; are called &#8220;molhos de vides&#8221;.


The &#8220;molhos de vides&#8221; are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=270&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WICKER AND TRAINING VINE  &#8211; “VERGA”</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/wicker-and-training-vine-%e2%80%9cverga%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiltonPires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my pruning post and photos you can see that man are carrying wicker at their belts and tying the vines to the training wires with it. In Portuguese wicker is called &#8220;verga&#8221;.

&#8220;Verga&#8221; comes from a willow (&#8220;vergueiro&#8221;) that usually borders the properties and grows mainly on moist soils.

It is harvested once a year, by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=267&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MLF RESTART</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/mlf-restart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MLF has restarted! It is now clearly audible the gas release from de barrel.
On 22th February I had some doubts about it but it turned out that  such a late first racking, before the end of the MLF, is possible and doesn&#8217;t cause any harm to the bacteria responsible for MLF.
As temperatures will now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=256&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PRUNING</title>
		<link>http://lagar.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/pruning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend the vines were pruned.
I do cane pruning and use the double Guyot training system. In this system, last year productive branches are cut and two last year branches are tied along the bottom wire in opposite directions.
I have never tried to prune so I hire a local team of pruning professionals to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lagar.wordpress.com&blog=4752276&post=231&subd=lagar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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