It’s one apiece from Australia and Portugal. Both are finds from two of the buzziest trade tastings I’ve attended in a while...
Tag Archives: Bairrada
Ideal Drinks’ prodigious portfolio produced a number of my most exciting new Portuguese discoveries of last year. Quite an achievement for a...
So said Dirk Niepoort when I caught up with him earlier this year at Quinta de Baixo, which Niepoort purchased in 2012...
For drinking now, Filipa Pato’s exquisite fortified Baga is just hitting its sleek, sophisticated stride. With Atlantic and varietal freshness, it most...
Worlds collided on Monday. Fine wining and fine dining. Nothing new there, you might say. But actually, not so common for them...
Portugal’s Bairrada region has preoccupied me this year. Literally (time-wise), because I spent a wet but fruitful week there in March researching...
Cambridge Wine Merchants are running a series of free tastings and events throughout July to highlight wines which have been made sustainably....
I posted photographs of my stand out wines from Joao Paulo Martins’ (pictured) superb masterclass, entitled “40 years of Great Reds,” (1963 to 2003)...
It being the season of new growth, perhaps my April Wines of the Month should have been ingénues? However, I cannot help myself...
Check out this old wine map of Portugal, from the 1950s apparently. There’s no mention of the Alentejo or Douro wine regions...
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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