I’m visiting Portugal several times this year on my quest to discover 50 Great Portuguese Wines – I have the honour of...
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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,...
Vintage port Cockburns 1955 – attractive plum and red fruits, a touch jammy with lovely dried spice notes of cassia bark, anise,...
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