The new Madeira Wine Company releases from Blandys and Cossart Gordon include some real gems. The younger wines were more expressive several...
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As usual, Madeira Wine Company’s 2021 releases are exemplary. Departing from the norm, this year’s four Madeira releases include a rare as...
Visceral, yet ethereal. Such is the contradiction of fine Madeira, especially for Frasqueira or Vintage examples, which must be aged in cask...
The Port trade has seen some seismic shifts in the last 20 years or so. It would seem the ripples have been...
It’s rare that I need a prompt to open either a bar of chocolate or a bottle of Madeira, but it happened...
It was a throw away line, not a serious suggestion from The Madeira Wine Company’s dynamic young director. But the more I...
This vintage Blandy’s received a modest 500kg of the Terrantez grape, even though 2012 has been a very good and high yielding...
No wine seduces like Madeira, whose sweet, heady and entrancing aroma led us by the nose, Bisto Kid-style, from the entrance upstairs...
Just back from three days presenting Portuguese wines, followed by lunch at our rather tasty venues: Winchester (Hotel du Vin), Bath (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