Last month was a fertile month for tastings but two wines particularly caught my attention. One for the first time. The other,...
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Generally declared, 2017 Vintage Port is grabbing the headlines at the moment. Rightly so based on what I’ve tasted so far. However,...
My April Wines of the Month are made by power couples and next gen winemakers – one of whom went into the...
Missão & Rexarte: enchanting 2015 single vineyard Bagas from Filipa Pato & William Wouters and Vadio
I’ve described it as unmissable, great. An example has been a Wine of the Month. And the superlatives about Bairrada’s 2015 Bagas...
I spent last week in Antwerp at the ASI Best Sommelier of the World 2019, (the 16th edition). Let me tell you,...
Kopke is renowned for its wood-aged Ports. This ‘new’ Very Old Dry White Port release blew me away with its remarkable freshness...
A week in Portugal – two wine fairs, four days in Lisboa – threw up plenty of candidates for my March Wines...
I spent the last week in Portugal, judging at Revista de Vinhos’ Top 10 Portuguese Wines competition at Essência do Vinho Porto wine fair,...
This is the sixth release of Taylor’s Single Harvest Tawny Ports (Colheitas) released on their 50th birthday. I received the customary pre-release...
I’ve written a good deal about the wines of the Azores in recent years. I’m noticing that Madeira’s table wine (DOP Madeirense,...
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 Donna - lucky you, living in Sintra and close to Bairrada. So much going on. And thanks for your feedback too -
Hi Sarah, I so enjoyed finding this, what great wine writing! I had all but given up reading wine blogs, laden as they are with […]