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 ACCESS >Fly TAP Portugal airlines (flytap.com) from New York City directly to Lisbon. Round-trip fares from $800. LODGING >Casa do Terreiro do Poço is a magnificent hotel in Borba (a town with white ... Me: "Great wine — just add great wine!" Tim: "New, from Robitussin!" The wine keeps flowing and the plates keep coming. As we take the first spoonfuls of the sixth course, a sea-urchin soup with a richness approaching that of a truffle, I realize that in the last few days I've cultivated a new appreciation for wine. And while on paper I understand Tim's quest to find the next great bottle, I'm not sure I share his narrow definition of what that means. Sure, Miguel the Mad Dentist produces a wine of quirky brilliance and uncompromising sophisti cation, and Henrique the Grape knows how to let the land speak for itself. But isn't a great wine something much simpler? I ask myself, while Tim pokes with comical timidity at a lightly breaded monkfish ball drizzled with lobster sauce. I think it is. Great wine is any good bottle you share in good company. In a charmingly bucolic country. While tearing around empty country roads on powerful enduro-touring bikes. Between meals with more courses than you normally eat in a week. Comments (0)
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