This year’s travels ended as they started, with a vibrant wine fair – Amphora Day at Herdade do Rocim in Alentejo. ...
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Ten years ago, I spent a week in Alentejo. In my subsequent report (here), I remarked how this visit reinforced what a...
On Monday, at Encontro com Vinhos e Sabores 2018 in Lisbon, I was extremely honoured to be asked by Revista de Vinhos to present...
Writing up the latest 2013 release of Mouchão provides the opportunity to plug a gap in my posts and cover the 2012 vintage, which...
With 101 producers showing their wares at Simplesmente Vinho 2018, up from 84 in 2017 (and just 16 in 2013), Portugal’s alternative...
Ten years apart, poles apart stylistically and, indeed, some 17,000km apart, my April Wines of the Month are a contrasting pair. But...
Talha wines – wines fermented on skins in amphorae in Alentejo – have grown like topsy since 2015, when I spent a fascinating...
Readers will know that Mouchão is a favourite Alentejo producer. Last week I found another fan in Max Graham, founder of London’s...
r Iberian red varieties impressed me this last month, as did these two producers (check out my notes on a Rocim Antão...
In a recent post about Portalegre – Alentejo’s coolest, highest DOC sub-region – I reported how leading producer Rui Reguinga of Terrenus...
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 Fiona. Thanks for your comment. So they bottle it too? Nice for you! V best Sarah
Great article - thanks ! I bought a case of Antao Vaz Talha wine from Pais das Uvas earlier this year and feel like opening