I attended a special tasting of five decades of Quinta do Noval Vintage and Colheita Ports on the first of November, all...
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This post follows up my first Vintage Port 2016 report, which focused on ports from the Fladgate Partnership, Symington Family Estates, Quinta...
It’s July, it’s scorching so I know, I know, Vintage Port. But then this post is all about being smitten, not seasonal. ...
The Douro Valley has had a run of great vintages. Vintage Ports were declared in 2015 and, last week, I very much...
Following on from my 5th March over-view post about Simplesmente Vinho – its aims and trends – this post reports on the...
The New Douro tasting takes place in London next month and, with its focus on Douro reds and Ports from 2015, should...
May’s New Douro Tasting provided an opportunity to taste a range of cask samples of Vintage Port 2015. I wrote up the...
In my fourth write up of 2015 Vintage Port I review cask samples of Symington Family Estates’ releases from Dow’s, Quinta do...
Not the most Portuguese of tiles, but perhaps the most Portuguese of wines – Vintage Port. Each sporting the colours of their...
I bumped into Christian Seely, Managing Director of Quinta do Noval, last month and enquired about 2015 – would Noval declare? 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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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 […]