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Sometimes it’s not so very hard to translate Portuguese. Invencível, meaning invincible, is a case in point. And there is a very...
A new chapter for Penfolds unfolded last week with the launch of Penfolds The California Collection. Why Super Calif Australia-istic? Well, two...
I rarely reproduce press releases, though I receive plenty. But The Primum Familiae Vini’s press release about The PFV Prize struck a...
My April Wines of the Month are made by power couples and next gen winemakers – one of whom went into the...
I spent last week in Antwerp at the ASI Best Sommelier of the World 2019, (the 16th edition). Let me tell you,...
Vintage Port from 2016 has garnered plenty of headlines this year. Rightly so, but now for something quite, if not completely, different...
It would seem that Alentejo winemakers are good news for Portugal’s Macaronesian wines. Antonio Macanita (Azores Wine Company) and Paulo Laureano (consultant...
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will…,” pronounced the heroine...
Niepoort regularly feature in my Wines of the Month and, once again, it’s with a new, surprising wine from their new and evolving...
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