Kopke is renowned for its wood-aged Ports. This ‘new’ Very Old Dry White Port release blew me away with its remarkable freshness...
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This week sees the biggest congregation of Australian winemakers outside the country. All Australian. Watch this space for more on that. For...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Port is not just for Christmas, it’s for life! As my Niepoort tasting...
I’m dreaming of a white August. These two whites set my pulse running last month. The first, Eileen Hardy Chardonnay 2009,...
It has been something of a nostalgia trip mentoring/judging at Oddbins The Palate these last two years. It doesn’t feel so very...
My modus operandi at The Big Fortified Tasting is to scan the catalogue for new (to me) releases, my first focus. And...
I promised to follow up last week’s report (here) on my first impressions of New Douro releases (mostly 2010 reds and 2009...
The Port category is awash with innovation at the moment (see my report here), and that includes white Port which, until recently has...
I’m just back from Encontro com o Vinho e Sabores 2010 in Lisbon, one of Portugal’s largest wine fairs. It’s open to both...
The previous year I’d visited the most eminent of the British shippers – Fladgate and Symington, so the aim of this tasting...
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 -
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