Replacing the usual Wines of the Month spot with a (three blog) focus on my Wines of the Year involved a serious...
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Replacing the usual Wines of the Month spot with a (three blog) focus on my Wines of the Year involved a serious...
For drinking now, Filipa Pato’s exquisite fortified Baga is just hitting its sleek, sophisticated stride. With Atlantic and varietal freshness, it most...
The Downer Room at Australia House (pictured) might well be described as classic, grand, rarified even. All words which describe the Muscats...
Inevitably Australia was the inspiration for my October Wines of the Month. I must confess it was a ginormous challenge to pick...
August is a quiet month in the wine trade tasting calendar. Praise be it’s less about tasting, more about drinking. September’s Wines...
Portugal’s Bairrada region has preoccupied me this year. Literally (time-wise), because I spent a wet but fruitful week there in March researching...
This month’s summery recommendations underline the impact of place (Mornington Peninsula) and vintage (2011) in Australia. Mornington Peninsula’s cooling maritime influences combined...
Before you become giddy with the thought of rosé wines and the like now suddenly it’s summer, I’m taking the opportunity to shout...
Sunshine at last and on a Bank Holiday – the hottest, sunniest day of the year so far. Ironically, when the real thing was...
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