The Independent Winegrowers’ Association is a group of quality-focused boutique producers who have banded together to market their wines and champion the...
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Barossa-based Yalumba is Australia’s oldest family owned winery and yet remains one of its most innovative. This tasting celebrates 160 years of...
Fascinating to compare the Shiraz-lead Grange Grange and Cabernet Sauvignon-lead “poor man’s Grange,” a.k.a. Bin 389. The tasting was notable for the...
Vintage port is typically declared 3 in every 10 years so 2007, the 3rd declaration of this decade, makes for a good...
Although it was formed in 1996, it was only following my third visit to Western Australia in 2008 that I learned of...
I met up with David Hohnen of McHenry Hohnen in London to taste his latest releases from Margaret River, Western Australia. He’s...
This year’s spotlight rooms drew me in first for a focus on different varieties or styles chosen by some of Australia’s leading...
The Wine Anorak a.k.a. Jamie Goode spent a good deal of 2008 scouring Portugal for great wines and he and I caught...
The previous year I’d visited the most eminent of the British shippers – Fladgate and Symington, so the aim of this tasting...
Presented at a Decanter Fine Wine Encounter by Adrian Bridge CEO of the Fladgate Partnership, who acquired Croft in 2001. The 2003...
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… A few years ago Luis Sottomayer (Head winemaker for Casa Ferreirinha and…
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Hi Sarah, Thanks for this great post! Reading your reviews makes me happy that I have a few bottles of (the regular) Noval from 2015 onwards!! All
Thanks for the suggestion. I know Lance Foyster quite well. However I have just found the Wine Society are now listing an Encruzado for £15.50