With 101 producers showing their wares at Simplesmente Vinho 2018, up from 84 in 2017 (and just 16 in 2013), Portugal’s alternative...
Tag Archives: Alentejo
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...
I’m on a Grand Jury this week, which has a soap operatic ring to it. In fact, I’m one of a panel...
During my January visit with João Afonso of Cabeças do Reguengo and Rui Reguinga of Terrenus, we tasted a mini-vertical of red wines from...
“The big change in the last 10 years in Portugal is whites,” says Rui Reguinga. A change so unexpected that, he admits,...
To be labelled Portalegre DOC, wines must be vinified in Portalegre as well as made from local fruit. It’s a bone of...
Pico, the Azores – the Santorini of Portugal? I have to admit that I’d thought of the Azores…
One of the wine world’s great bargains: 2011… A few years ago Luis Sottomayer (Head winemaker for Casa Ferreirinha and…
2011 Vintage Ports round up – 35 Ports reviewed I'm wary of being reductive but, if there's a phrase…
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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
Hi Geoff, The Wine Soc do one offs. Maybe try contacting Clarke Foyster, Carlos Lucas' importer? V best Sarah