First taste: 2022 Madeira Wine Company releases from Blandys and Cossart Gordon
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Quinta do Noval & Noval Nacional Vintage Port vertical tasting (2011-2020)
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Of age & beauty – spectacular 50 Year Old & Very Old Ports & some babies…
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International Baga Day: 21st May
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Hail, Henschke, Eden Valley Shiraz 2017
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Welcome to my website which, following my retirement, is an archive source of almost two decades of posts about Portugal and Australia (up until October 2022). On my ‘Published Elsewhere’ page, you can find a selection of my Portugal and Australia contributions for respected wine titles and reference books (up until September 2025).
Sarah Ahmed, The Wine Detective.
You will find almost two decades of posts on my website, the last in October 2022, so it is now primarily an...
August has been a torrid month weather-wise and in the metaphorical sense for one reason and another, so these vinous tonics went...
I could just as easily have left out the commas, but there is an embargo on publishing reviews of Henschke’s four single...
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You will find almost two decades of posts on my website, the last in October 2022, so it is now primarily an...
The new Madeira Wine Company releases from Blandys and Cossart Gordon include some real gems. The younger wines were more expressive several...
Sandeman is renowned for its Tawny Ports with an indication of age, namely its 10-, 20-, 30- and 40-Year-Old Aged Tawnies. It...