This week I’m in Oporto focused on Douro 2013 reds and 2014 whites. It was a good year for whites, provided they...
Tag Archives: Portugal wine
Rain may have dampened spirits about the Portugal 2014 vintage but, nonetheless, there are some very good wines, especially (but not exclusively)...
Ideal Drinks’ prodigious portfolio produced a number of my most exciting new Portuguese discoveries of last year. Quite an achievement for a...
So said Dirk Niepoort when I caught up with him earlier this year at Quinta de Baixo, which Niepoort purchased in 2012...
Leading Portuguese wine magazine Revista de Vinhos hosts it’s 13th tasting of fine wines and flavours from 9-12 November in Centro de Congressos de Lisboa...
My first report following my March visit to the Douro Superior (here) focused on Duorum, who have planted one of a rash...
At yesterday’s Annual Portugal Tasting I kicked off in style with Anselmo Mendes’ Vinho Verdes. The 2011 wines look great – good...
They say that life’s too short to drink bad wine, less still to write about it too! With the exception of lesser...
The Guardian’s Fiona Beckett kindly flipped my way an invite to L’AND Vineyards in Evora, Alentejo, Portugal and, last Friday, I participated in a...
The annual New Douro tasting is a great opportunity not just to assess a vintage but also to catch up with latest...
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