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Spencer Prather

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:27:58 PM8/3/24

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When I went into the liquor store last night and asked about mateuse wine they all looked at me like I was some crazy older lady. I just had to come home and Google it. I wanted to be sure I wasn't crazy. Turns out I'm not. We always used it in an old family Greek recipe for Greek spaghetti sauce and it really was disappointing that I could not find it. Any suggestions?

Thanks so much for your article. We were seriously wondering what what had happened to our college days fav (real) wine. Ripple white (pear) was what we drank in the dorm while we dressed for dates, but Mateus was what our dates bought to make a good impression :o)

Enjoyed this post! I tried Mateus ros for the first time on the Sud Express train from Spain to Portugal. Our neigbhors in the bar car offered a taste when I looked curious, so nice of them. I thought it was delicious and ordered it often in Lisbon. Is it available in SF?

Wow. Mateus and Lancers are great wines. Perfect for serving at a Thanksgiving dinner by the way. I've spent the afternoon looking for either with no luck. Hope they make a comeback soon. Great article.

Thanks for reviving wonderful memories. When I was stationed in Germany in the early '60's, Mateus Rose was the loss leader at the local "class six" store (US Armed Forces Exchange liquor store). Portuguese wine, German bread and sausage, and French cheese were our off-duty staples. G.I. Waste paper cans filled with snow or ice generally held around 6 battles of Mateus Rose.

My husband enjoyed Mateus in the 1970s when we were the only ones we knew drinking wine, and we were living in California! We loved it then; we love it now. Some things that are excellent in the beginning stay excellent with time. Cheers!

I am delighted to find this article! I ordered Mateus twice in Barcelona, the first time quite randomly, and the second time quite deliberately because I liked the first bottle so much. Now I will enjoy it even more having learned some of its "provenance," if you will. I was born in '77 and had no idea of its reputation in the 70's. This just makes me smile!

Thanks for the article. Mateus was my favorite wine in college and post college in Boston/Cambridge. It was a wine that I REALLY liked and was affordable.

My tastes and values are often non mainstream (big supporter of Jill Stein) so I just figured I was not in sync with popular taste. Then I read an interview with Mario Puzo after he wrote Godfather. He could afford any wine in the world and he said that Mateus was his favorite wine. Made my day!

I've been unable to find it in California and I read somewhere that it is drier and more sparkly than in the 70's. ???

People are such wine snobs these day and have zero reason to be given 99% of people cannot tell a 5 bottle from a 50 in a blind test. People like to think they're sophisticated but mostly they're just sheep to the wine marketing wolves.

Most punters believe that as long as they insist on only buying from a limited list of dry wines with high ABV% then they're doing something right but in fact they're missing out on a whole world of lovely drinks. It makes no sense because you'll find that person who "cannot stand" a semi-sweet wine happily spooning 4 sugars in their coffee or sucking down bottle of Fanta - mysteriously their love of only the driest drinks vanishes outside of wine.

I've enjoyed many a bottle of Mateus on hot day and also other forbidden wines like semi-sweet reds, sparkling Shiraz, fizzy Tokai and the some of the new-wave and wonderful Lambrusco's out there now. I can't get most people to even take a sip as they "know" they won't like them.

Wine snobs are almost as annoying as coffee snobs. Almost.

Thanks for this great post. I was in college when every dorm room has at least one bottle of Mateus on a shelf. The bottle with its pretty label was as much a sales feature as what was inside. I love it that a six-year-old post was still floating around the Internet to slake my curiosity.

In 1967 I lived on Abaco, Bahamas and it was a primitive crown colony at that time. I worked for an American company at the time. Our food was imported, we were young and learning about life. We had the privilege of learning about Mateus and if there was any other wine on earth, we did not know it by name. Oh, I would love once again to have the old green bottle full of that beautiful rose. Any young adult who would not love Matsus is just uneducated.

Well it won't kill you. I'd try it. Will it be good? Unlikely, but not impossible. I'd like your tasting notes.

Just this morning a winemaker I know posted something about tasting a 30-year-old cheap Argentine white wine (a Torrontes) that he was planning to use for cooking. It sounded pretty interesting.

(BTW, on the off chance that you open the bottle and it smells like bacterial rot -- like a stinky cheese -- in that case, don't taste it. This isn't likely but it's possible if the closure wasn't completely sealed.)

After seeing the cover of thecurrent wine spectator with jon bon jovi and rose was trying to remember the name of the rose we drank back in the 1970s. Google broht me to this great artcle! Thanks! Now to go find a bottle of MateusRose :)