Beaming in from Blandy’s Wine Lodge in Funchal, Madeira last Thursday, Madeira Wine Company’s CEO Chris Blandy and Winemaker Francisco Albuquerque talked...
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In recent times, Blandy’s has been very much the public face of the Madeira Wine Company in the UK. So it was...
Visceral, yet ethereal. Such is the contradiction of fine Madeira, especially for Frasqueira or Vintage examples, which must be aged in cask...
Inevitably, fortified wines played a role during December’s festivities. I must admit I feel like I’ve been hankering for more of Blandy’s...
Last week’s Port tips centred on wines which are ready to drink now. Once bottled, Madeira is ready from the get go...
Portuguese Atlantic islands did much to garner my attention in October. I re-visited the Azores for a Decanter feature (due out February)...
No I’m not talking about the canapes, delightful though they looked. I head off to Madeira in little over a week to...
There’s no denying Madeira wine is a niche product. Like the island itself, a drop in the ocean. But it’s increasingly well...
No wine seduces like Madeira, whose sweet, heady and entrancing aroma led us by the nose, Bisto Kid-style, from the entrance upstairs...
I am a total convert to madeira following this visit to the region in January 2007. As with many wines, forget the...
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