Lancers is a brand of medium-sweet, lightly
sparkling wine
Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, European Union countries legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the Champagne regi ...
produced by the
JM da Fonseca JM may refer to:
Places
* Jamaica (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code JM)
* Jay Em, Wyoming, a community in the United States
Businesses and organizations
* Jack's Mannequin, a piano rock band
* Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic terrorist group ...
winery
A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, ...
in
Portugal
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. The brand was created in 1944, when Vintage Wines of New York predicted that wine consumption in the United States would increase after
World War II
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.
A sparkling Lancers, made by the continuous method, was introduced in the late 1980s. It was originally sold in distinctive squat bottles made of rust-colored, opaque crockery rather than clear glass.
See also
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Mateus (wine)
Mateus is a brand of medium-sweet frizzante rosé wine produced in Portugal.
History
The Mateus Rose brand was launched in 1942 and introduced to the UK in the early 1950s. Production began at the end of World War II. The wine was especially style ...
Further reading
*Robinson, Jancis (Ed.) ''The Oxford Companion to Wine''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1999.
External links
*José Maria da Fonseca homepag
(in Portuguese)
Portuguese wine
Food and drink companies established in 1944
Drink companies of Portugal
Portuguese companies established in 1944
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