Sarah Ahmed – The Wine Detective

Alentejo – first taste: Mouchao 2006 & 2 new wines from Richard Mayson’s Quinta do Centro

After a solid week of tasting Portuguese wines for Decanter World Wine Awards, I got withdrawal symptoms last night and what better than to taste two brand new wines from my fellow chair, Richard Mayson, who presided over the judging of fortified wines.  And why not make it a hat trick since I had a sample of [...]

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Worship at the altar of Alentejo?

Portugal’s UK market share still hovers around a measly 1%, though if you take a look at retailers’ lists, you can be sure that wines from the Alentejo region, which I’ve just visited,  account for a fair percentage of them.  Why? A clue lies in one of its nicknames, “the Australia of Portugal.” The building [...]

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