I fully expected to be bowled over by the highly accomplished Rieslings for which this region is famous, even the Shiraz, for...
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The Douro 2003 reds have now been bottled and look impressive. You’d be pleasantly surprised if you expected to be bludgeoned by...
Langtons is the leading wine auction house in Australia and produces a classification of top Aussie kit based on auction performance over...
Unsurprisingly, 2003 was a terrific vintage for Port and the vintage was declared earlier this year. The high summer temperatures experienced in...
Winemaker Sue Hodder was over for the Australia Day tastings and presented a cross section of great vintages of Wynns Black Label...
This, my first glassware tasting, was the stand out event for me over Christmas. It even helped to shape my Christmas present...
Richard Mayson has written widely about Portuguese wines and port. He was invited to select 50 great Portuguese wines for this new...
d’Arenberg enjoyed cult status among Oddbins’ staff and my Oddbins’ Fine Wine customers alike with a mad scramble each year for an...
Domaine Huet is one of the top, arguably the top, Vouvray producer. The wines are remarkably long lived as evidenced by this...
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