Sandeman is renowned for its Tawny Ports with an indication of age, namely its 10-, 20-, 30- and 40-Year-Old Aged Tawnies. It...
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Not many Port houses could present a vertical of top tier Vintage Ports from 2011 to 2020 featuring every year. Quinta do...
With apologies for the radio silence – technical hitches interrupted posts – here is my promised Tawny Port follow up to my...
For the fourth year in a row, the Douro has produced Vintage Port quality. Of those samples I’ve received, the declarations are...
Evidently, Quinta do Monte Xisto in the Douro Superior is a precocious site. Planted between 2005 and 2006, the eponymous red –...
Taylor’s 1896 Single Harvest Tawny Port – the ‘stuff’ of perfect scores – would be an obvious choice for my Wines of...
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...
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