It’s one of Europe’s leading holiday destinations and has Portugal’s highest concentration of hotels and restaurants, but the Algarve is not known...
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I’m visiting Portugal several times this year on my quest to discover 50 Great Portuguese Wines – I have the honour of...
The Independent Winegrowers’ Association is a group of quality-focused boutique producers who have banded together to market their wines and champion the...
Vintage port is typically declared 3 in every 10 years so 2007, the 3rd declaration of this decade, makes for a good...
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...
The hallmark of this vintage is relatively forward wines, with less extract and stuffing than usual but, on the upside, nice elegance...
Presented by David Guimaraens, Technical Director and Winemaker of the Fladgate Partnership, who acquired his family port house, Fonseca, in 1949. Fonseca...
I contribute to the Portugal copy for Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book so last year spent a month in Portugal all told,...
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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It's terrifically consistent isn't it. Wishing you all v best too Paul. Sarah
Hi Sarah, Many thanks again for this one! Very happy to read Pintas VP '18 doesn't disappoint but shines like their VP '17! Wish you a