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Transcript of Epicure Store Catalog 2015
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Epicure Store Presentation 4
About the Grape Varieties of Epicure Wines 5-7
Wines Presentation 8-12
Delicacies Presentation 13-15
Gift Packaging Card Boxes 16-20
Gift Packaging Hammper 20
Gift Packaging Wood Boxes 21-22
Gift Packaging Optionals 22
Contacts 24
Table of Contents
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Who is Epicure Store
Epicure Store was born from a family business established
in 1968 by the hand of his only founder and it is now on its
3rd generation.
We started by the normal distribution of food, beverages
and groceries. But internal developments and market de-
mand led the company to specialize in the area where it
had more experience and knowledge - the marketing and
distribution of beverage, including the production of our
own wines and client’s own brand wines.
Nowadays, with decades of experience, we became one of
the oldest independent beverage distributors in Portugal,
and we won the trust of customers in Europe and Africa.
This wealth of knowledge and our wide experience bring
balance, stability, credibility and a great degree of comfort
for all our customers.
Our business model and a dedicated team allow us to de-
liver, design, label, pack and distribute a wide range of
own branded wines from quality vineyards and wineries of
Portugal.
The success of Epicure Store is due to our knowledge and
experience in viticulture, winemaking, logistics and mar-
keting, along with our unique and personalized relation-
ship that we have developed along these decades with
producers of vineyards, wineries, suppliers and customers.
Our success is due mainly to our love for wine, so every-
thing we make is made with passion…
Epicure Store is our way of sharing our passion, by offering
exclusive luxury gifts of our amazing Epicure wines.
Why the brand Epicure
Epicure represents a person with an exquisite palate, es-
pecially in food and wine. A person devoted to sensuous
pleasure and luxurious living. Our wines are a tribute to
those persons and to wine itself.
Our wines represent some of the best Portugal’s vineyards
and are the work of people who contribute everyday with
their effort, inspiration and passion on the creation of
great wines.
We love wine and we love the sensations we are invited to
feel from the aroma and taste of grapes transformed into
a refined and sensual nectar.
Allow us to share this passion with you…
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About the Grape Varieties of Epicure Wines
Red Wine
Tinta Barroca: This is one of the most commonly-planted
vines in the Douro, and one of the five officially
recommended varieties for port. You will rarely meet it as
a single variety, but it forms part of most red Douro
blends, contributing dark colour without too much tannin,
thanks to its dark but thin skins, along with plummy,
cherry fruit. Despite high yields, its grapes are rich in sugar
and potential alcohol, and it is a reliable producer, with
good resistance to pests and diseases. However, it copes
badly in excessive heat and water stress, and grapes that
suddenly become over-ripe can rapidly turn to raisins on
the vine. It has been exported to South Africa where is is a
component in port-style wines as well as making some
varietal table wines
Tinta Roriz: (perhaps most widely known by its Spanish
name Tempranillo) is Douro's most commonly used red-
wine grape. In this blend it brings structured acids and
tannins to Tinta Barroca's corpulence and high alcohol.
Into the bargain it contributes intense berryfruit aromas,
with hints of sweet spice, leather and tobacco leaf.
Touriga Franca: This is one of the structural pillars of red
Douro blends, and also one of the five officially
recommended grapes for port. It's the most widely
planted grape in the Douro, currently accounting for
around a fifth of total vineyard area, and it is now much
planted right across the northern half of Portugal. The
Touriga Franca makes
richly-coloured, dense
yet elegant wines with
copious blackberry fruit
and floral notes (roses,
rock roses, wild flowers...) and firm but velvety tannins
that contribute to the ageing potential of blends - it is
often blended with Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional. Apart
from the quality of its wines, it is popular in the vineyard
for its resistance to pests and diseases and its reliably
good crops of healthy grapes.
Touriga Nacional: Few would dispute that the Touriga
Nacional is Portugal's finest red grape variety, deserving a
place right up at the top of the world league of grapes,
along with the likes of Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and
Nebbiolo. Though Northern in origin, it has spread right
across the country - you will find it down south in the
Algarve and the Alentejo, out west in the Ribatejo/Tejo
and Setúbal regions, successfully competing with the local
Baga grape in Bairrada, and way out mid-Atlantic in the
Azores. Touriga Nacional is a thick-skinned grape, and
those skins are rich in colour and tannins, giving excellent
structure and ageing capicity. But it also has wonderful,
intense flavours, at the same time floral and fruity - ripe
blackcurrants, raspberries - with complex hints also of
herbs and liquorice. Yields are never high. The Dão and
Douro regions both claim to be the origin of this fine
grape, and the rest of the winemaking world is beginning
to wake up to its quality.
White Wine
Gouveio: This Douro grape is now planted right across
Portugal and has recently become particularly popular in
the Alentejo. It produces fresh, lively wines with good
acidity, plenty of body, and fresh, citrus aromas, along
with notes of peach and aniseed, and lovely balance. It
ages well in bottle. For years it was known as Verdelho in
the Douro, which led to confusion, as Gouveio has nothing
to do with the Verdelho of Madeira. It ripens quite early,
giving relatively high yields of medium-sized, tightly
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packed bunches of small, yellowish-green grapes that are
prone to oidium infection and vulnerable if rain should fall
around harvest time.
Rabigato: Planted throughout the Douro Superior, this is
one of the Douro's best white grapes, contributing bright,
refreshing acidity to white blends. When (rarely) it is
vinified as a single variety, its aroma is reminiscent of
acacia and orange blossom, with vegetal notes and a
strongly mineral character, full body and good acid
structure. The bunches are medium-sized, the grapes
small and greeny-yellow in colour.
Viosinho: This north-eastern grape survives for the most
part scattered here and there in the old mixed white
vineyards of the Douro. Traditionally, Viosinho has been
an unpopular variety with growers because of its very low
yields. It's only recently that winemakers have realised
what a treasure it is, as a component both in port and in
unfortified Douro white blends. It makes full-bodied but
fresh, fragrant, well-balanced wines, performing best in
hot, sunny climates where it is less prone to oidium and
botrytis infection. Bunches and grapes are small and early-
ripening.
White Wine Vinho Verde
Loureiro: Although now widely disseminated throughout
the Vinho Verde region, it seems that the Loureiro grape
originated in the valley of the River Lima, towards the
north of the VR Minho/DOC Vinho Verde region.
"Loureiro" means "laurel" or "bay" and the aroma of
Loureiro wines is said to resemble that of laurel flowers,
also orange blossom, acacia and lime blossom, overlaying
appley, peachy fruit. Loureiro wines usually have
refreshing, well-balanced acidity. Loureiro is much in
evidence nowadays bottled as a single variety, but
traditionally it was more often blended with Arinto
(Pedernã) and Alvarinho, or with Trajadura. It is a very
vigorous, high-yielding
variety that has only
recently been
recognised as "noble".
The bunches are
elongated and
relatively compact, bearing medium-sized, yellowish-
greenish grapes.
Rose Wine Vinho Verde
Borraçal: High quality red grape variety recommended for
the entire Demarcated Region, except for the Monção sub
-region, being largely diffused. Productive and rustic, this
grape variety produces ruby colour wines with an intense
aroma, well-balanced, harmonious and flavourous.
Espadeiro: High quality red grape variety, recommended
for almost the entire Demarcated Region, except for the
Monção sub-region and the more southern area. Very
productive and rustic, it produces light ruby to ruby colour
wines with a grape variety aroma and flavour and some
acidity.
Vinhão: Famous for its biting acidity and dark, opaque
colour, Vinhão is the most-planted grape of the Vinho
Verde/Minho region. Unlike most red grapes, where
practically all the colour comes from the skins, Vinhão also
has red flesh and therefore instant red juice, which then
darkens further once the blue-black skins have time to
macerate. This is an especial advantage in the case of port
production, where colour needs to be extracted very
quickly. In the Douro Valley it goes by the name of Souzão,
and it is currently being quite widely replanted. Vinhão
originated in the Vinho Verde/Minho region, and only
later migrated to the Douro.
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Sparkling Wine
Arinto: This is a versatile grape, grown in most of
Portugal's wine regions. In Vinho Verde country, it goes by
the name of Pedernã. It makes vibrant wines with lively,
refreshing acidity, often with a mineral quality, along with
gentle flavours reminiscent of apple, lime and lemon.
Arinto-based wines can keep well but are also delicious
young. Because it keeps its acidity even in hot climates,
Arinto is often added to other lower-acid white grapes to
improve blends - especially in the hot Alentejo and
Ribatejo. It makes some of its greatest wines in the small
DOC region of Bucelas, just north of Lisbon, where it must
account for at least 75 per cent of blends (along with
Sercial and Rabo de Ovelha). Its good acidity also makes it
a great ingredient for sparkling wines. Arinto's medium-
sized bunches are tightly packed with small grapes
Chardonnay: Chardonnay is the world’s most famous
white-wine grape and also one of the most widely planted.
The variety itself (although often said to be relatively
flavor-neutral) is responsible for most of the fruity flavors
found in Chardonnay wines. These range from the tropical
(banana, melon,
pineapple and guava) to
stonefruits (peach,
nectarine and apricot),
citrus and apples.
Although most famous
for its still, dry wines,
Chardonnay is used to
produce an impressively
diverse range of wine
styles. The variety is put
to use in sparkling wines
all over the world (most famously Champagne), when it is
usually paired with Pinot Noir.
Chardonnay is particularly popular with wine producers,
not least because it has a reliable market of keen
consumers. The variety produces relatively high yields, will
grow in a broad spectrum of climates and can be made
into wine of acceptable quality with relative ease. rather
elusive – reminiscent of green apples in its purest form.
producers to show the character of their vineyard and
demonstrate the full art of winemaking techniques.
Despite being an all-round crowd-pleaser, very few white
grapes are capable of producing wines with such
complexity and ageing ability as chardonnay. As such it is
one of the world's true classics or noble grape varieties.
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Red Wine Douro DOC
Vintage: 2013
Alcohol: 15% Vol.
Total Acidity: 5 g/dm3
Total Sugar: 2.3 g/dm3
Advice: Serve at a temperature of 18ºC
Aroma & Flavor: Young, elegant, very fruity mainly red
fruits. Intense, complex, a long and persistent aftertaste.
Winemaker: Anselmo Mendes and Fernando Guerra
Grape Varieties: Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga
Fanca and Tinta Barroca
Food Suggestions: Red meat, roast fish,
cheese, cold cuts. Size: 750ml
Box: 6 bottles
WINES
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WINES
White Wine Douro DOC
Vintage: 2013
Alcohol: 13% Vol.
Total Acidity: 6.4 g/dm3
Total Sugar: 2.1 g/dm3
Advice: Serve at a temperature of 10ºC
Aroma & Flavor: Fruity, fresh, very expressive. Intense,
balanced, harmony of flavors. Aftertaste fruity, persistent.
Winemaker: Anselmo Mendes and Fernando Guerra
Grape Varieties: Viosinho, Rabigato and Gouveio
Food Suggestions: Appetizers, salads, grilled fish and white
meat, sushi, seafood, cheese
Size: 750ml
Box: 6 bottles
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WINES
White Wine Vinho Verde Loureiro DOC
Vintage: 2014- Great Choice
Alcohol: 10,5% Vol.
Total Acidity: 6.3 g/dm3
Total Sugar: 6.2 g/dm3
Advice: Serve at a temperature between 8ºC and 10ºC
Aroma & Flavor: Citrus fruit, floral, persistent and distinct.
Winemaker: José Antas Oliveira
Grape Varieties: Loureiro
Food Suggestions: Appetizers, salads, light meals, grilled
food, fish, sea food, sushi. Beautiful Summer wine.
Size: 750ml
Box: 6 bottles
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WINES
Size: 750ml
Box: 6 bottles
Rosé Wine Vinho Verde DOC
Vintage: 2014- Choice
Alcohol: 10% Vol.
Total Acidity: 6 g/dm3
Total Sugar: 14.4 g/dm3
Advice: Serve at a temperature between 6ºC and 8ºC
Aroma & Flavor: Red fruits, soft, smooth, young, light and
versatile, slight presence of carbon gas.
Winemaker: José Antas Oliveira
Grape Varieties: Vinhão, Borraçal and Espadeiro
Food Suggestions: Appetizers, salads, light meals, grilled
food, fish, sushi. Beautiful Summer wine.
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WINES
Sparkling Wine Brut Bairrada DOC
Vintage: 2009– Special Reserve
Alcohol: 12,5% Vol.
Total Acidity: 6.13 g/dm3
Total Sugar: 4.5 g/dm3
Advice: Serve at a temperature between 6ºC and 8ºC
Aroma & Flavor: Mixed sensations of citrus and biscuit
notes. Fresh and firm with well dissolved bubbles in wine
Winemaker: ND
Grape Varieties: Chardonnay and Arinto
Food Suggestions: Appetizers, salads, sushi, seafood
Size: 750ml
Box: 6 bottles
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Winter Delight - Sweet Specialty
For this handmade jam we cooked apple and pear in a butterscotch, adding a small pinch of flower of salt from the Camargue region. It is a sweet jam in which the powerful aroma of the caramel blends harmoniously with hints of cooked apple and pear. A real discovery for a cold season full of sensations.
Enjoying Suggestion: With the cold season arriving, a treat by the fireplace is appreciated. Serve at breakfast or as afternoon snack, with crêpes, waffles or scones, with yogurt, fresh cheese or cottage cheese. Use it to make a tart, doughnuts or macarons. Goes very well with these Epicure wines: white or rosé Verde wine, Douro white wine and Bairrada sparkling wine brut.
After open keep in the fridge.
DELICACIES
Ingredients: Apple (42%), pear (32%), butterscotch (milk)(11%), sugar cane, Camargue’s salt flower (0,2%).
Size: 125grs
Box: 12 jars
Ingredients: Strawberry Mara des Bois (63%), champagne (3%), sugar cane, gelling: fruits pectin, concentrated lemon juice.
Size: 125grs
Box: 12 jars
Divine Flavors - Sweet Specialty
Strawberry Mara des Bois variety is exceptional for 2 reasons: the fruit tastes very much the wild strawberry and each plant has exceptional productivity (up to 1kg). This very high quality variety is recommended especially for its flavor. It can be used to make delicious desserts. The delicate taste of wild strawberry, enhanced by a Champagne note, offer this handmade jam a completely divine flavor.
Enjoying Suggestion: An introduction to pleasure. To be appreciated with your loved one. Serve at breakfast or as afternoon snack, with crêpes, waffles or scones, with yogurt, fresh cheese or cottage cheese. Use it to make a tart, doughnuts or macarons. Goes very well with these Epicure wines: white or rosé Verde wine, Douro white wine and Bairrada sparkling wine brut.
After open keep in the fridge.
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DELICACIES
Autumn Duo - Specialty for Cheese
A handmade great classic when talking about the combination of cheese and jam. It’s up to you to test and approve the most daring combinations.
Enjoying Suggestion: Serve with goat cheese as appetizer, dessert or just a snack.
Goes very well with these Epicure wines: Verde white wine, Douro white.
After open keep in the fridge.
Ingredients: Fig (50,5%), walnut (1,7%), Pays d’Oc white wine, sugar cane, gelling: fruits pectin, concentrated lemon juice.
Size: 125grs
Box: 12 jars
Basque Piperade - Savoury Specialty
This homemade chorizo piperade is a little nod to the Basque country and to Spanish tapas.
Enjoying Suggestion: Let the Latin spirit invade you and enjoy life. Preferably to be enjoyed with pre -dinner drinks on toast or in verrines. You can also add a soft-boiled egg and a slice of cured ham to it to make a piperade.
Goes very well with all our Epicure wines.
After open keep in the fridge and consume rapidly.
Ingredients: Red pepper (59%), crushed peeled tomatoes, tomato juice, acidifiers: citric acid and lactic acid, onion, chorizo (pork, salt, pepper, spices) (4,5%), sunflower oil, Pays d'Oc white wine, garlic, salt, herbs, spices
Size: 100grs
Box: 12 jars
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DELICACIES
Mushrooms’ Duxelles - Savoury Specialty
The Marquess of Uxelles had a cook, La Varenne, the author of “Le Cusinier François”, a landmark work marking the passage from medieval cooking to great modern cooking, who, in the 17th century, invented a recipe for finely chopped button mushrooms, steamed in butter with onions and shallots, that were used to add flavor or as a stuffing in all kinds of culinary dishes.
Enjoying Suggestion: We recommend garnishing simple tartlets with this delicious handmade preparation to produce appetizers to remember. Sprinkle them with a little finely chopped parsley and heat them for a minute or two. We also encourage you to use this ingredient in a delicate stuffing. A magnificent aroma of boletus mushrooms will escape from your oven, whetting the appetite of your guests.
Goes very well with all our Epicure wines.
After open keep in the fridge and consume it rapidly.
Rustic Tapenade - Savoury Specialty
We make our homemade classic dark tapenade with stoned black olives… and a little know -how. We do not grind the stone, to avoid powdered olive stones, which generally add a great deal of bitterness to the tapenade and which is then covered up either with anchovy cream or salt. Our tapenade offers an authentic taste of olives and something to really bite into (real olive pieces in your mouth).
Enjoying Suggestion: This dark tapenade with sun -dried tomatoes and basil can be served on toast as a snack, as a stuffing for grilled fish (red mullet, for example) or else spread on white meat, such as rabbit (à la tapenade).
Goes very well with all our Epicure wines.
After open keep in the fridge and consume it rapidly.
Ingredients: Black olive (74%), dry tomato (4%), extra virgin olive oil, capers, garlic, sunflower oil, salt, concentrated lemon juice, water, mustard seed, vinegar, anchovies, herbs (including basil 0,8%). Might have traces of almonds.
Size: 100grs Box: 12 jars
Ingredients: Mushrooms from Paris (68%), rehydrated ceps (14%), sunflower oil, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, parsley, salt, spices, acidifier: lactic acid.
Size: 100grs
Box: 12 jars
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Basic
Type: Card box for 1 bottle
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 90x90x370mm
GIFT PACKAGING
Basic
Type: Card box for 1 bottle
Color: Black
Dimensions: 90x90x370mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 1 bottle
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x90x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 1 bottle
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x90x90mm
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GIFT PACKAGING
Edition
Type: Card box for 2 bottles
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x185x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 2 bottles
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x185x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 3 bottles
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x280x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 3 bottles
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x280x90mm
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GIFT PACKAGING
Edition
Type: Card box for 4 bottles
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x370x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 4 bottles
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x370x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 6 bottles
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x560x90mm
Edition
Type: Card box for 6 bottles
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x560x90mm
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GIFT PACKAGING
Prestige
Type: Card box for 1 bottle
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x90x90mm
Prestige
Type: Card box for 1 bottle
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x90x90mm
Prestige
Type: Card box for 2 bottles
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x180x90mm
Prestige
Type: Card box for 2 bottles
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x180x90mm
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GIFT PACKAGING
Prestige
Type: Card box for 3 bottles
Color: Black
Dimensions: 340x270x90mm
Prestige
Type: Card box for 3 bottles
Color: Golden
Dimensions: 340x270x90mm
Deluxe
Type: Card box for 2 bottles and 3 jars
Color: Black
Dimensions: 368x260x108mm
Delight
Type: Wicker Hamper for 2 bottles and 3 jars
Color: Natural
Dimensions: 360x250x150mm
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GIFT PACKAGING
Corporate
Type: Wood box for 1 bottle
Color: Natural
Dimensions: 346x106x96mm
Corporate
Type: Wood box for 2 bottles
Color: Natural
Dimensions: 346x196x96mm
Corporate
Type: Wood box for 3 bottles
Color: Natural
Dimensions: 346x266x96mm
Corporate
Type: Wood box for 4 bottles
Color: Natural
Dimensions: 346x346x96mm
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GIFT PACKAGING
Corporate
Type: Wood box for 6 bottles
Color: Natural
Dimensions: 516x346x96mm
Gift Card Wallets
Type: Card wallets with ribbons and bow
Color: Black with golden bow
Dimensions: 188x150mm
Sealing wax stamp with Ø25mm
Wrapping Paper and Printed Ribbon
Type: Metallic tissue paper, double sided | Double faced satin ribbon
Color: Golden | Black printed in gold
Dimensions: 500x750mm | 2500x2,5cm
Sealing wax stamp with Ø35mm
Shredded Paper
Type: Metallic shredded paper | ZigZag shredded paper 4mm
Color: Golden | Black
Dimensions: 4kgs | 5kgs or 10 kgs
Address: Leiria | PORTUGAL
Telephone: + 351 91 218 07 38
Sales: [email protected]
Private Label: [email protected]
Celebration Label: [email protected]
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CONTACTS
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