It has been an exceptionally dry and hot year in Portugal. During my Australia trip, I was dismayed to pick up news...
Tag Archives: Douro
The New Douro tasting takes place in London next month and, with its focus on Douro reds and Ports from 2015, should...
This week sees the biggest congregation of Australian winemakers outside the country. All Australian. Watch this space for more on that. For...
I felt extremely honoured to be given a bottle of this limited edition of 320 bottles of 40 Year Old Tawny Port,...
The usual order is wine then cork, but not in the case of José Silva, Miguel Cardozo and Pedro Coelho. The three...
A couple of weeks ago I was in Oporto for my first tasting and lunch at The Factory House, the bastion of...
May’s New Douro Tasting provided an opportunity to taste a range of cask samples of Vintage Port 2015. I wrote up the...
In my fourth write up of 2015 Vintage Port I review cask samples of Symington Family Estates’ releases from Dow’s, Quinta do...
Not the most Portuguese of tiles, but perhaps the most Portuguese of wines – Vintage Port. Each sporting the colours of their...
I bumped into Christian Seely, Managing Director of Quinta do Noval, last month and enquired about 2015 – would Noval declare? As...
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 Donna - lucky you, living in Sintra and close to Bairrada. So much going on. And thanks for your feedback too -
Hi Sarah, I so enjoyed finding this, what great wine writing! I had all but given up reading wine blogs, laden as they are with […]