Dirk Niepoort rates Niepoort Vintage Port 2017 as the best Vintage Port he has made – “in the same line of 2015, but...
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With 101 producers showing their wares at Simplesmente Vinho 2018, up from 84 in 2017 (and just 16 in 2013), Portugal’s alternative...
My series of tastings for Portuguese Wine School & Bar Douro’s ‘in conversation’ with the winemakers series continue this month, focusing on Bairrada –...
I am just back from a few days with Baga Friends in Bairrada. The occasion? (Not that I need one to go...
A couple of weeks ago I was in Oporto for my first tasting and lunch at The Factory House, the bastion of...
It’s to Portugal I look for my April Wines of the Month. Both from Niepoort. One a rare as hen’s teeth Garrafeira...
I caught up with Dirk Niepoort twice in April, first for the launch of a new Douro red, the improbably named Clos...
My modus operandi at The Big Fortified Tasting is to scan the catalogue for new (to me) releases, my first focus. And...
Today starts with “N.” I’m updating the Portugal entries for Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine and, where “N” kicks off with Niepoort, there’s...
Vintage Port (whether classic or Late Bottle Vintage) is all about the vintage right? Okay, the vintage and the house style, right? ...
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 Billie, the style is dry, but given your medical condition and vintages vary & sometimes producers change the style, I'd recommend you check with […]
Hello Sarah, […]