During October, I was tasked with selecting 20 benchmark examples of Tawny Port for Decanter. Let me tell you, it was a...
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Sogevinus was awarded the accolade of Fortified Producer of the Year at this year’s Sommelier Wine Awards. Kopke bagged half of the Port...
The 7th Taylor’s Single Harvest Port to be released on its 50th birthday hails from a generally declared year. Like the 1966...
My July Wines of the Month are a contrary Portuguese pair when in comes to style, provenance and price point. But they...
I’m looking forward to showing Kopke Colheita Port 1966 – a fabulous example – at Decanter’s Spain & Portugal Fine Wine Encounter...
This is the sixth release of Taylor’s Single Harvest Tawny Ports (Colheitas) released on their 50th birthday. I received the customary pre-release...
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...
Pico, the Azores – the Santorini of Portugal? I have to admit that I’d thought of the Azores…
One of the wine world’s great bargains: 2011… A few years ago Luis Sottomayer (Head winemaker for Casa Ferreirinha and…
2011 Vintage Ports round up – 35 Ports reviewed I'm wary of being reductive but, if there's a phrase…
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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