Ten days and 21 pipes tells a story. Speed, speed, speed. Selection, selection, selection. With an Atlantic storm on the horizon, such...
Tag Archives: Vintage Port
It’s my favourite fortified tasting of the year today – The Big Fortified Tasting. So what better way to kick start the day...
This week I’ve received news of two Vintage Port releases from 2013, a game of two halves vintage. One from a Port...
The lure of the new – new wine, new vintage – is hard to resist, especially for wine writers, but my April...
This year two venerable Port houses celebrate their 200th anniversaries – Fonseca and Cockburns. I’ll be reporting on their commemorative tastings later...
Launching Port Wine Day last Wednesday Manuel de Novaes Cabral, President of the Port and Douro Wines Institute (IVDP) quipped “every day...
In my recent post about Quinta do Noval 2012 Vintage Port I did say that Quinta do Noval has an idiosyncratic approach...
Made from 100% estate fruit Quinta do Noval may literally be a Single Quinta Vintage Port but, first and foremost, it’s regarded as...
Vintage Port (whether classic or Late Bottle Vintage) is all about the vintage right? Okay, the vintage and the house style, right? ...
Last Friday I reported on David Guimaraens’ brilliantly insightful masterclass/tutored tasting of classic Port varieties. Please do take a look if you’ve...
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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