Taylor’s 1896 Single Harvest Tawny Port – the ‘stuff’ of perfect scores – would be an obvious choice for my Wines of...
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Taylor’s led the charge for limited edition luxury-positioned Very Old Tawny Ports, launching Scion, a pre-phylloxera Tawny from 1855, followed by Taylor’s...
Living up to its name, The Big Fortified Tasting (BFT) is an important annual date in the diary. A rare opportunity to...
My April Wines of the Month are a top tier classic Clare Valley Riesling from Pikes and a new flagship Douro red...
In the new normal world of Vintage Port, declarations seem to be coming ever thicker and faster. Although Niepoort did not declare...
It is hard to believe that a year has elapsed since my last wine travels, visiting Oporto for the ying and yang...
I reviewed Fladgate’s 2018 Vintage Port releases last September here. Launched on the market this month, I take a second look at...
Taylor’s has annually launched a 50-year-old Single Harvest Tawny since 2014 (starting with the 1964 – links to all my reviews below). ...
As usual, I’ve collated my reviews of the latest Vintage Port releases from the brilliantly fresh 2018 vintage. There are some great...
Always keenly anticipated, I was thrilled to catch up with this new 2018 iteration of an old friend from just before 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 Kerry, I don't have first hand experience of this and I'm not sure where you are based, but this guide from an online wine […]
I have a collection of old wines from Australia and other countries and would like to know if they are of any value. Most of