One could talk endlessly about Portuguese wine culture, the diversity of the vines, the flavors, and the wonderful food. There are now over 200 grape varieties on the Portuguese wine palette. In this article, we present a brief introduction to the beautiful world of Portuguese wines, introducing selected red and white grape varieties and the Portuguese climate that gives Portugal's wines their unforgettable flavor. 

At the beginning of the year, we sat down with Try Foods to conduct a sardine tasting. Although we are actually constantly trying new sardines, such a tasting from time to time is always good to refresh knowledge and re-evaluate what has been stored. Individual preferences can change, and with vintage sardines, the maturation has progressed further ... And so we met in the sardine bar and bravely worked our way through eleven different varieties. What we were able to taste during this, you can find out here!

Yes, we are sardine lovers! Sardine lovers are people who love sardine cans – whether full or empty as a collector's item. Although we prefer the full ones. One of our favorite sardine brands comes from Matosinhos, about ten kilometers northwest of Porto on the Atlantic coast. This port city is home to Fábrica de Conservas Pinhais, the Pinhais cannery, which we had the opportunity to visit on our last trip to Porto. Here you will learn what makes Pinhais & Nuri so special. Enjoy!

Mold can take on the most adventurous colors and shapes on cheese, so that the cheese sometimes looks like a little hairy animal ... in most cases, however, the mold is not bad, but absolutely intentional. Just think of the white bloomy rind of Camembert or the many delicious blue cheeses ... Using various French and Italian raw milk cheeses, we explain to you in this video what types of mold there are and whether you can eat it or rather not. Enjoy watching and don't be afraid of mold!

Roquefort is the love of my life – at least when it comes to cheese. This beautiful blue with its pale complexion is incredibly aromatic and probably not for everyone, especially those who only cautiously venture into blue when it comes to pasta with Gorgonzola cream sauce … And it is not only delicious, but also good for the heart. After all, we are told that its creation can be attributed to a love story.

If you want to stock up on your favorite cheese for the holidays but don’t know how to keep it fresh and delicious for as long as possible, you’ve come to the right place. In this short video, we’ll share our best tips and tricks, including how to make a makeshift cheese bell ... Enjoy!

Behind Saboreal are three good friends whose goal is to bring traditional fish specialties to the world with a modern twist and in a new guise. For example, to Berlin, to us!All pastries are made from local ingredients and produced by hand in the Algarve. Vincent Jonckheere, one of the founders, is visiting us and letting us taste his pastries made of sardine, mackerel, and tuna.  We look forward to him and, of course, to you!

With the kind support of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce, we invite you to a tasting with a focus on Portugal on December 1. As you already know, Portugal has much more to offer than football-European champions, for example, absolutely fantastic world-class wines. To complement this, we will be serving delicious Portuguese canned fish. A few more surprises are also in store, including from Anabela's Kitchen and Natas Berlin – but only while supplies last!

The year is drawing to a close ... and every end contains a beginning. Hesse said something to that effect. Things are a bit less poetic over here, but decidedly more culinary!That is why we are dedicating our first tasting of the winter to duck, this noble poultry, and presenting you, under the motto "Duck good, all good", supported by our Catalan supplier Collverd, a variety of fine duck specialties.

4 days, 4 regions, countless fantastic wines. That is the summary in numbers of our recent trip to Portugal. What we experienced and who we met, we tell in this blog post. There is news from Rita Marques Ferreira from Conceito Wines from the Douro, a discovery in terms of Alvarinho, a new vintage from Alvaro Castro ... enjoy reading and traveling in your imagination!

Madeira? Madeira, Madeira ...? Isn't that an island in the Atlantic? And isn't that where the Portuguese football hero Cristiano Ronaldo comes from? That's all true. But Madeira is also the protected designation of origin name for an excellent and still little-known fortified wine that comes from the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. And that, of course, is what interests us gourmets the most! You can read all here about what you have always wanted to know about it!

Have you ever experienced intercultural differences over a cheese platter and had an argument break out about the proper way to cut cheese? Of course, there is no absolute right or wrong way to do it, but we’ll explain how it’s done in France and what the French think when they simply don’t cut their cheese into slices. Enjoy!