This month’s Baga Friends’ visit kicked off with a horizontal tasting of 2015s – the first of a great run of vintages...
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As they say, everything new is old, including Buçaco Rosado Reservado – a rosé – from Bussaco Palace Hotel. Re-launched with the 2016...
My September Wines of the Month are young but sophisticated, surely with long lives ahead. With terroir in spades, they scream right...
Chemistry was not a favourite subject but, I must say, it’s always a thrill to receive test tubes of Very Old Tawny...
From a wine perspective, the Azores has surely seen more action in the last decade than in the previous 150 years. In...
This post follows up my first Vintage Port 2016 report, which focused on ports from the Fladgate Partnership, Symington Family Estates, Quinta...
In recent times, Blandy’s has been very much the public face of the Madeira Wine Company in the UK. So it was...
My August Wines of the Month are two sensual beauties, with terrific mouthfeel and complexity. Mouthfeel might suggest weighty but, fresh and...
With 101 producers showing their wares at Simplesmente Vinho 2018, up from 84 in 2017 (and just 16 in 2013), Portugal’s alternative...
In February, I visited with Márcio Lopes, tasting cask samples of Pequenos Rebentos Edição Limitada Vinho Verde wines. Now in bottle, Pequenos...
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, loved this post, just as I loved Part 1. Your review of the 2016 VP's is very important to me, as it undoubtedly
Hi Thomas - hoping, should the opportunity arise! Best Sarah