With so many Australian wine tastings last month, it has been exceptionally tough to single out my Wines of the Month. In...
My Wines of the Month
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My September Wines of the Month are young but sophisticated, surely with long lives ahead. With terroir in spades, they scream right...
My August Wines of the Month are two sensual beauties, with terrific mouthfeel and complexity. Mouthfeel might suggest weighty but, fresh and...
It’s July, it’s scorching so I know, I know, Vintage Port. But then this post is all about being smitten, not seasonal. ...
Last month’s Bairrada Masterclass at Portuguese Wine School was postponed, so there’s still a chance to taste a spectacular line up of Bairrada’s best. And...
Ten years apart, poles apart stylistically and, indeed, some 17,000km apart, my April Wines of the Month are a contrasting pair. But...
I am going single varietal this month. It’s not unusual with Australia – especially having just been at at Riesling Downunder, where I...
With Australia Day Tastings x three for me (I was presenting Margaret River Masterclasses in London, Edinburgh & Dublin), I had plenty...
Both these excellent Australian Chardonnays are made by members of Yarra Valley Wine Women (pictured above), for whom I chaired a tasting...
A week well spent in the Dão last month threw up so many candidates for my December Wines of the Month that...
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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