Vintage Port (whether classic or Late Bottle Vintage) is all about the vintage right? Okay, the vintage and the house style, right? ...
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I’ve christened today Fladgate Day. Why? Well first thing I received an email about the 1863 Single Harvest Tawny Port (my notes from...
Tonight, I’ll be tasting 20 Vintage Ports from Sandeman, including the outstanding vintages of 1944, 1955, 1963, 1977, 1994 & 2011. Having...
Last month I sat down for lunch with two winemaking generations of the Nicola de Almeida family. And I tasted the work...
It’s judging week at Decanter World Wine Awards and, once again, I’ll be chairing the regional panel for Portuguese table wines. An...
On Monday the first finished articles of 2011 Vintage Ports came my way – terrific examples from Sandeman and the Symington Family...
Wine & Soul 5G Five Generations Very Old Port (a Tawny Port) was laid down by Jorge Serôdio Borges’ great-great-grandfather. It was...
Last year I reported on a flurry of esoteric and very exclusive wood-aged Port wine releases. At €2,500, Taylor’s Scion set the...
Sip & Savour indeed! Monday’s Symington Family Estates wine tasting and lunch at Alyn Williams at The Westbury proved an enormous success if I say...
I received an email yesterday from Quinta do Crasto’s Miguel Roquette with some pics (above and below) of Quinta da Cabreira in bloom. They...
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