It’s my favourite fortified tasting of the year today – The Big Fortified Tasting. So what better way to kick start the day...
Tag Archives: Vintage Port
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...
Last week David Guimaraens of The Fladgate Partnership was in town to present a masterclass and, let me tell you, Guimaraens puts...
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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It's terrifically consistent isn't it. Wishing you all v best too Paul. Sarah
Hi Sarah, Many thanks again for this one! Very happy to read Pintas VP '18 doesn't disappoint but shines like their VP '17! Wish you a