Next Friday I’ll be shooting over to Oporto for a quick stopover visit. My destination? Simplesmente Vinho’s 2014 tasting of terroir-driven wines,...
Tag Archives: Portuguese Red Wine
The annual New Douro tasting which celebrates the latest 2011 red and 2012 white Douro wines takes place next Thursday, 20 February....
If there’s a red grape which really excites me from Alentejo it’s Alicante Bouschet, a red-fleshed grape which is a cross of...
http://www.https://thewinedetective.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/douro-nov-2012-050.jpg Last week I wrote up a pair of altitude-specific Douro wines from Duorum who, for the first time, will participate in...
After Monday’s post about Niepoort’s thrilling new single vineyard wine Turris, here’s yet another illustration of why the Douro has been described as...
This last week I’ve been focused on updating the Portugal entries for the forthcoming (4th) edition of The Oxford Companion of Wine. ...
Lunching at “equal billing” for vegetables Grain Store at the weekend (great veggie Scotch egg; braised cauliflower main a misfire) reminded me how...
Last Wednesday I wrote up Susana Esteban’s first terrific releases here. I am sure Procura is destined to become an Alentejo classic....
Like Port, Douro wines have become increasingly refined. A few years back when I sampled the first (2009) Vinhas Velhas wine from Quinta...
I posted photographs of my stand out wines from Joao Paulo Martins’ (pictured) superb masterclass, entitled “40 years of Great Reds,” (1963 to 2003)...
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