It was good to taste my first cask sample of Vintage Port 2018 this week – Ramos Pinto Quinta do Bom Retiro...
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Like Niepoort, Ramos Pinto declared 2015 (my review here) and not 2016 Vintage Port, so the release of Ramos Pinto Vintage Port...
This week sees the biggest congregation of Australian winemakers outside the country. All Australian. Watch this space for more on that. For...
I felt extremely honoured to be given a bottle of this limited edition of 320 bottles of 40 Year Old Tawny Port,...
Last Friday I wrote up a fascinating tasting – Duas Quintas’ 25th anniversary vertical of white wines. As you might expect, the...
It’s one thing to be a pioneer, quite another to be successful. Ramos Pinto’s Douro DOC brand Duas Quintas turned 25 years...
Duas Quintas, the Douro DOC wine label of acclaimed Port House Ramos Pinto, is 25 years old. It may have been born...
I often feel that lady luck is smiling on me given some of the fabulous tasting opportunities which come my way. This...
Resuming my Vintage Port 2011 reports, Ramos Pinto have produced a superlative wine. Composed of 50% Touriga Nacional, 32% Touriga Franca, 5%...
Not that I twirled along the mountaintops, Julie Andrews style, but I don’t believe I’ve ever made such a dramatic entrance as...
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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Great wrap-up on one of the most challenging vintages in living memory (for so many reasons). Thanks for sharing the stories and more about the amazing
Hi Sarah, great post, thank you very much! Looking forward to the other announced ones! Hope you are also going to review Pintas VP '18