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The new Madeira Wine Company releases from Blandys and Cossart Gordon include some real gems. The younger wines were more expressive several...
Sandeman is renowned for its Tawny Ports with an indication of age, namely its 10-, 20-, 30- and 40-Year-Old Aged Tawnies. It...
Not many Port houses could present a vertical of top tier Vintage Ports from 2011 to 2020 featuring every year. Quinta do...
August has been a torrid month weather-wise and in the metaphorical sense for one reason and another, so these vinous tonics went...
Série Ímpar translates as odd series. Odd in the sense of individual or unusual. It’s not unusual for an artisanal producer to...
v Venerating age is all the rage with the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of this last week. And in Oporto where three new...
I am just back from hectic but highly productive travels to Bairrada to celebrate International Baga Day (21st May), Porto Santo in...
You can take the man out of Portugal, but you can’t take Portugal out of the man. And so it is for...
Has there been a better excuse than this Saturday to dust down a bottle of Baga, the Bairrada region’s iconic single varietal...
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, Thanks for this great post! Reading your reviews makes me happy that I have a few bottles of (the regular) Noval from 2015 onwards!! All
Thanks for the suggestion. I know Lance Foyster quite well. However I have just found the Wine Society are now listing an Encruzado for £15.50