Ramos Pinto Duas Quintas Tinto 2011 (Douro DOC) This year the Duas Quintas brand is 25 years old. It was one of...
Tag Archives: Douro Red Wine
Timing, they say, is everything. So a masterstroke then for The Wine Society to come up with their first own label Exhibition...
Selecting Wine & Soul Guru 2013 as one my December Wines of the Month gave you a steer on my take of the...
The annual New Douro tasting which celebrates the latest 2011 red and 2012 white Douro wines takes place next Thursday, 20 February....
http://www.https://thewinedetective.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/douro-nov-2012-050.jpg Last week I wrote up a pair of altitude-specific Douro wines from Duorum who, for the first time, will participate in...
After Monday’s post about Niepoort’s thrilling new single vineyard wine Turris, here’s yet another illustration of why the Douro has been described as...
In 1999 the Amorim family (of cork fame) acquired Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo in the Douro’s Cima Corgo as part of...
Ask anyone why the Douro Valley is famous and they’ll say Port – most likely vintage port, which accounts for a measly...
The hallmark of this vintage is relatively forward wines, with less extract and stuffing than usual but, on the upside, nice elegance...
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