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Tried & tasted: Sandeman, Ferreira & Offley 2011 Vintage Ports
It’s judging week at Decanter World Wine Awards and, once again, I’ll be chairing the regional panel for Portuguese table wines. An about turn having spent the last week focused on Port, especially the 2011 Vintage Port releases – the subject of my next few blogs, starting with Sogrape’s releases. Here is Sogrape’s report on [...]
Continue reading...Late, low but lovely: Sogrape’s preliminary vintage report, Portugal
Posted Thursday 11th October 2012
A month after my first preliminary vintage report (here) and harvest is still underway in Portugal – late indeed. Here’s a report just in from Sogrape, the country’s biggest producer: “At the moment, the situation in the wine producing regions of Portugal (where Sogrape Vinhos is harvesting currently) reflects the climatic conditions particular to this [...]
Continue reading...Iconic Portugal: Barca Velha 1982 & 2000, plus Sandeman 1955 Vintage Port
Posted Thursday 8th March 2012
I’ve been in Portugal since Sunday. First in Monção e Melgaço, Vinho Verde’s northernmost sub-region, which is the epicentre of Alvarinho. Since Tuesday, focused on the Douro Superior, the region’s easternmost sub-region. The pace has been fast and furious and, though I’ve been tasting some brilliant wines and snapping pics hither and thither, I’ve only managed to post a few tweets [...]
Continue reading...First taste: Herdade do Peso Ícone 2007, Sogrape’s new flagship Alentejo red
Posted Monday 13th February 2012
Sogrape is Portugal’s biggest producer. When I say its portfolio is wide-ranging, there’s no better way to lift that off the page than to mention that it makes Barca Velha on the one hand (Portugal’s most expensive wine) and its long time biggest seller, Mateus Rose. With estates hither and thither (and, I might add, [...]
Continue reading...The UK’s leading Vinho Verde, a personal favourite, goes under screwcap
Posted Tuesday 3rd May 2011
When I spoke at 1.º Encontro e Prova Internacional de Vinho in Portugal about selling Portuguese wines in the UK market in March, an unpalatable truth that I felt duty-bound to point out was that, with just one exception, every Portuguese wine tasting I’ve presented in the last year has had a least 1, if [...]
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Posted Monday 29th April 2013
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