On Monday, at Encontro com Vinhos e Sabores 2018 in Lisbon, I was extremely honoured to be asked by Revista de Vinhos to present...
Tag Archives: Portalegre
With 101 producers showing their wares at Simplesmente Vinho 2018, up from 84 in 2017 (and just 16 in 2013), Portugal’s alternative...
It’s that time of year when you might expect press releases about Vintage Port declarations to hit the inbox. The Symingtons have duly...
During my January visit with João Afonso of Cabeças do Reguengo and Rui Reguinga of Terrenus, we tasted a mini-vertical of red wines from...
“The big change in the last 10 years in Portugal is whites,” says Rui Reguinga. A change so unexpected that, he admits,...
To be labelled Portalegre DOC, wines must be vinified in Portalegre as well as made from local fruit. It’s a bone of...
In 2009, the same year that I first visited Alentejo’s Portalegre sub-region, wine writer and former ballet dancer João Afonso acquired a...
I first came across Tapada do Chaves at a “40 years of great reds” tasting hosted by Portuguese wine writer Joāo Paulo...
I’ve been excited about Portalegre since my first visit in 2009. For me, it’s not just about this elevated region’s cool climate...
I was going to say first taste, but in fact Susana Esteban submitted them for the highly successful Decanter panel (blind) tasting of...
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 […]