Sarah Ahmed – The Wine Detective

A feast of tasting notes: coming up on The Wine Detective

London International Wine Fair is over and, having been away from my desk the best part of two months, I’m looking forward to writing up some top tastings and working my way through a towering pile of samples. Here’s a taster of the heady cocktail in store here at The Wine Detective over the next [...]

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Madeira relief fund

The Specialist Importers Trade Tasting usually provides me with a chance to catch up with Ricardo Diogo V. Freitas, third generation winemaker at Barbeito. He’s a human dynamo and my visit in 2007 (reported here) swiftly dispelled any the notion that Madeira is all pipe and slippers. Well, you may have guessed that Ricardo didn’t [...]

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