Worlds collided on Monday. Fine wining and fine dining. Nothing new there, you might say. But actually, not so common for them...
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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...
“My wines are made for the table” can sound clichéd. But not from Vitor Claro, one of Portugal’s leading young chefs. Highly...
Although I know in December, of all months, I’m supposed to write up suitably seasonable wines, ideal Christmas presents and all that,...
I’m in Oporto tasting the upcoming 2010 (reds) and 2011 (whites) Douro vintage releases and making good use of my baggage allowance...
A couple of weeks ago I regretted not pairing a bottle of Luis Pato Vinha Barrosa 2003 with melanzane parmigiana. The Portuguese grape variety...
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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It's terrifically consistent isn't it. Wishing you all v best too Paul. Sarah
Hi Sarah, Many thanks again for this one! Very happy to read Pintas VP '18 doesn't disappoint but shines like their VP '17! Wish you a