This is the sixth release of Taylor’s Single Harvest Tawny Ports (Colheitas) released on their 50th birthday. I received the customary pre-release...
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I attended a special tasting of five decades of Quinta do Noval Vintage and Colheita Ports on the first of November, all...
A week well spent in the Dão last month threw up so many candidates for my December Wines of the Month that...
In Monday’s Wines of the Month post featuring Niepoort Garrafeira Port 1931, I mentioned Paulo ‘If you think you know Port think...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Port is not just for Christmas, it’s for life! As my Niepoort tasting...
Autumn in a glass. That’s Tawny Port for you. I’ve had two great examples last month, both of which are more...
Taylor’s started launching 50 year old Single Harvest Ports last year with the 1964. Last week I sampled the follow up vintages...
Though founded in 1638, I’m told Kopke was officially acknowledged to be the oldest Port brand in 1940. It’s best known for...
“Vintage Port may be king, but Colheita Ports are [popular] by election,” so says Dirk Niepoort. Immediate appeal What makes these Tawny...
This was a thrilling, very privileged tasting which Bento Amaral, Chief of the Board of Tasters of the IVDP, introduced with the words“the sum...
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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