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This fifth generation Madeira producer has an enviable back-catalogue of aged wines. Here are my notes on Berry Bros “new range” (prices...
The Port trade has seen some seismic shifts in the last 20 years or so. It would seem the ripples have been...
It’s rare that I need a prompt to open either a bar of chocolate or a bottle of Madeira, but it happened...
There’s no denying Madeira wine is a niche product. Like the island itself, a drop in the ocean. But it’s increasingly well...
It was a throw away line, not a serious suggestion from The Madeira Wine Company’s dynamic young director. But the more I...
This vintage Blandy’s received a modest 500kg of the Terrantez grape, even though 2012 has been a very good and high yielding...
Tonight, I’m attending a function to mark the launch of the Madeira Flower and Wine Show hosted by Pestana Hotels at their London hotel, Pestana...
No wine seduces like Madeira, whose sweet, heady and entrancing aroma led us by the nose, Bisto Kid-style, from the entrance upstairs...
This was a thrilling, very privileged tasting which Bento Amaral, Chief of the Board of Tasters of the IVDP, introduced with the words“the sum...
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