I started this week in style. First a Langton’s Classification Masterclass with Andrew Caillard MW, followed by a freepour tasting of more...
Tag Archives: Alentejo wine
It’s the pruning season now in Alentejo. But what of the last crop? My sixth Portugal 2015 vintage report rounds up leading...
Portugal has a knack for hiding its light under a bushel. Only last week I discovered that the Alentejo region introduced a...
Herdade do Rocim’s winery could not be more modern. Nor could the first of their wines which I tasted – the heavyweight...
They say of Alentejano folk “they have just three speeds – slow, very slow and stopped,” but it hardly applies to one...
Monte da Ravasqueira in Arraiolos, Alto Alentejo, has been linked to the José de Mello family for several generations. Grupo José de...
“Under the table” has two meanings. To be intoxicated or clandestine. In the wine trade it can mean both since the clandestine...
Australian Cabernet Sauvignons have featured a fair bit in recent posts. In Portugal, Alentejo’s Quinta do Mouro makes deft use of this variety...
I have loved my three short but sweet stints working vintage, especially at Cullen Wines in Margaret River, Australia. My timing...
Susana Esteban’s own label maiden releases blew my socks off. And the Alentejo winemaker has done it again, this time with her...
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