I recently interviewed wine retailer Craig Perman with a couple of other wine people for my podcast, and he mentioned that he had helped Fat Rice build a Portuguese-wine-based list—helped in the sense that he took Fat Rice owners Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo to Portugal for two weeks earlier this year to visit small producers and taste what would go well with their Portuguese-Macanese fusion cuisine. Portugal is the eleventh largest wine producer in the world, though that's the kind of statistic that sounds good until you see how far behind their big three neighbors (France, Spain, and Italy) they really are.…
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