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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How refreshing to be jolted by good news. I just received this press release about 2018 Vintage Port in my email inbox...
From the first 2003 vintage, I’ve been consistently impressed with Wine & Soul Pintas Vintage Port. Describing it as “definitely the best...
I am pleased that I had the opportunity to re-taste bottled examples of Quinta do Portal 2017 Vintage Ports. First, because the...
Excited about the 2017 ports “since tasting the first run-off samples from the lagares,” said Johnny Graham, Churchill’s declared back-to-back Vintage Port...
Like Niepoort, Ramos Pinto declared 2015 (my review here) and not 2016 Vintage Port, so the release of Ramos Pinto Vintage Port...
Dirk Niepoort rates Niepoort Vintage Port 2017 as the best Vintage Port he has made – “in the same line of 2015, but...
With the seventh consecutive declaration this decade, Quinta do Noval Vintage Port declarations have, increasingly, diverged from the norm. On the other...
As 2016 Vintage Ports were launched in May last year (my report here), speculation was already rife about 2017 Vintage Port. Well...
I attended a special tasting of five decades of Quinta do Noval Vintage and Colheita Ports on the first of November, all...
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, great post, thank you very much! Looking forward to the other announced ones! Hope you are also going to review Pintas VP '18
Hi Wilfried, thanks for your comment - I couldn't agree more about Riesling and, like you, I'm a big Steingarten and Grosset fan. I'm […]