The new Madeira Wine Company releases from Blandys and Cossart Gordon include some real gems. The younger wines were more expressive several...
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As usual, Madeira Wine Company’s 2021 releases are exemplary. Departing from the norm, this year’s four Madeira releases include a rare as...
Living up to its name, The Big Fortified Tasting (BFT) is an important annual date in the diary. A rare opportunity to...
Beaming in from Blandy’s Wine Lodge in Funchal, Madeira last Thursday, Madeira Wine Company’s CEO Chris Blandy and Winemaker Francisco Albuquerque talked...
It seems to me to be more important than ever to shine a spotlight on Simplesmente Vinho, which has been a vital...
I’ve written a good deal about the wines of the Azores in recent years. I’m noticing that Madeira’s table wine (DOP Madeirense,...
In recent times, Blandy’s has been very much the public face of the Madeira Wine Company in the UK. So it was...
What is Madeira before it becomes ready to be bottled? Alchemist Ricardo Diogo V Freitas of Barbeito determined to show us what...
Visceral, yet ethereal. Such is the contradiction of fine Madeira, especially for Frasqueira or Vintage examples, which must be aged in cask...
A week well spent in the Dão last month threw up so many candidates for my December Wines of the Month that...
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