Both these excellent Australian Chardonnays are made by members of Yarra Valley Wine Women (pictured above), for whom I chaired a tasting...
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A week well spent in the Dão last month threw up so many candidates for my December Wines of the Month that...
Spring had sprung when I visited Australia last month, destination the Limestone Coast. As had some rather spiffing ‘Spring release’ 2017 reds. ...
I saw red last month. Not just in terms of my most memorable wines of the month, but also having heard various...
August is a quiet month for tastings, but I felt thoroughly spoiled by this sumptuous, complex Port and thoroughly on the horns...
Niepoort regularly feature in my Wines of the Month and, once again, it’s with a new, surprising wine from their new and evolving...
r Iberian red varieties impressed me this last month, as did these two producers (check out my notes on a Rocim Antão...
These pages have been a little quieter than usual because May has been exceptionally busy, with two trips to Portugal, thrilling tastings...
As always, Wines of Portugal’s annual London tasting proved fertile ground for new finds and new vintages of familiar faces (palates). Here...
It’s to Portugal I look for my April Wines of the Month. Both from Niepoort. One a rare as hen’s teeth Garrafeira...
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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