Lower key and more intimate than usual, The Penfolds Collection 2018 UK press preview with Peter Gago took the form of a...
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Penfolds has brought forward the release date of its Luxury & Icon Collection so, if it seems like a nano-second ago since...
The Australia Day Tasting (ADT) in London presented an opportunity to taste the latest top notch Art Series releases from leading Margaret...
It being the season of new growth, perhaps my April Wines of the Month should have been ingénues? However, I cannot help myself...
It ain’t squeaky clean, that’s for sure. Made by T’gallant, Claudius is not only Australian, it’s from the 80-brand Treasury Wine Estate...
Dusting off the jewels may seem a strange title for this blog post in Australia but, in the UK, a fair few...
Yesterday, wine-searcher.com published my Q&A interview with Margaret River’s Cabernet queen, Vanya Cullen (here), to coincide with Cabernet Day. Caught me on...
On Tuesday, I blogged about Australia’s rosé revolution, but one aspect of the Australian wine industry’s wider struggle to re-define itself to...
Usually, I’m oblivious about major sporting fixtures but I do know that today sees the start of The Ashes. So I fully...
When I first visited Australia in 2004, it was in the company of a possé of sommeliers from Michelin starred restaurants. During...
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