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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A week in Portugal – two wine fairs, four days in Lisboa – threw up plenty of candidates for my March Wines...
Writing up the latest 2013 release of Mouchão provides the opportunity to plug a gap in my posts and cover the 2012 vintage, which...
Ten years apart, poles apart stylistically and, indeed, some 17,000km apart, my April Wines of the Month are a contrasting pair. But...
It’s that time of year when you might expect press releases about Vintage Port declarations to hit the inbox. The Symingtons have duly...
“The big change in the last 10 years in Portugal is whites,” says Rui Reguinga. A change so unexpected that, he admits,...
In 2009, the same year that I first visited Alentejo’s Portalegre sub-region, wine writer and former ballet dancer João Afonso acquired a...
I first came across Tapada do Chaves at a “40 years of great reds” tasting hosted by Portuguese wine writer Joāo Paulo...
I’ve been excited about Portalegre since my first visit in 2009. For me, it’s not just about this elevated region’s cool climate...
It’s a good long while since I visited Júlio Bastos/Dona Maria’s beautiful estate and converted old winery with its marble lagares in Estremoz,...
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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Great wrap-up on one of the most challenging vintages in living memory (for so many reasons). Thanks for sharing the stories and more about the amazing
Hi Sarah, great post, thank you very much! Looking forward to the other announced ones! Hope you are also going to review Pintas VP '18