The usual order is wine then cork, but not in the case of José Silva, Miguel Cardozo and Pedro Coelho. The three...
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This week Decanter online published the results of a Value (sub-£20) Australian Shiraz panel tasting, just as I come to write up...
Readers will know that Mouchão is a favourite Alentejo producer. Last week I found another fan in Max Graham, founder of London’s...
When I visited Tasmania last November, I just missed Effervescence, Tasmania’s sparkling wine festival. This week, I received a press release about...
Niepoort regularly feature in my Wines of the Month and, once again, it’s with a new, surprising wine from their new and evolving...
A couple of weeks ago I was in Oporto for my first tasting and lunch at The Factory House, the bastion of...
Since I last visited with Nick Glaezter in 2012, he has left Frogmoore Creek to focus 100% on his and his journalist...
May’s New Douro Tasting provided an opportunity to taste a range of cask samples of Vintage Port 2015. I wrote up the...
At the end of last month Wine Australia hosted an Alternative Varieties Tasting in London with over 130 wines on show. Attendees...
In my fourth write up of 2015 Vintage Port I review cask samples of Symington Family Estates’ releases from Dow’s, Quinta do...
Pico, the Azores – the Santorini of Portugal? I have to admit that I’d thought of the Azores…
2011 Vintage Ports round up – 35 Ports reviewed I'm wary of being reductive but, if there's a phrase…
One of the wine world’s great bargains: 2011 Late… A few years ago Luis Sottomayer (Head winemaker for Casa Ferreirinha and…
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I am hoping to visit this hotel in October and will definitely look out for these wines. Thanks Sarah !
A few years ago I was lucky enough to have purchased some 2011 vintage ports to lay down for the future. 2011 was the year […]