I’m recently back from Oporto where, as last year, I spent a couple of days catching up with the latest Douro releases (mostly...
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Sip & Savour indeed! Monday’s Symington Family Estates wine tasting and lunch at Alyn Williams at The Westbury proved an enormous success if I say...
I interviewed Sandra Tavares da Silva of Wine & Soul for wine-searcher.com recently. The Lisbon-born winemaker told me that, when she started...
Located in the heart of the Cima Corgo, Quinta do Crasto is among the Douro’s most famous estates for table wines. Aged...
Churchill’s Estates’ wonderfully muscular, sinewy and mineral top red, Quinta da Gricha 2009 won a gold medal and trophy at this year’s Decanter...
Today, the judging process kicks off for Decanter World Wine Awards. Once again I’m Regional Chair for Portuguese table wines and, this year,...
Douro fans can catch Zev Robinson’s film “Life on the Douro” in London on 23 April at the Roxy Bar and Screen, Borough High Street, SE1....
I knew that the Douro was having unseasonal weather, but it really sank in last week when, each morning, I awoke to...
I’ve been in Portugal since Sunday. First in Monção e Melgaço, Vinho Verde’s northernmost sub-region, which is the epicentre of Alvarinho. Since Tuesday, focused on...
Next Wednesday it’s the New Douro trade tasting at the Portuguese Embassy, London. I had a sneak preview in Oporto last month and...
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