WINE OF THE WEEK: Esporão Monte Velho 2022, Alentejano, Portugal
This Portuguese red wine hits the holiday mood by delivering a whole lot of pleasure and an equal amount of character.
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Mar 30, 2023
WINE OF THE WEEK: Carvalho Martins Golpe Douro Branco 2021, Douro, Portugal
£13.50, Tanners This recent discovery by Tanners is a gem: a textured, dry white wine with crystalline acidity, a riveting smoky, mineral...
Dec 8, 2022
WINE OF THE WEEK: Quinta do Noval Late Bottled Vintage Port 2016, Portugal
£19.95–£26.75, Master of Malt, Cheers, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Ocado, Bon Coeur Fine Wines, Oddbins Never mind saving this until...
Jul 14, 2022
WINE OF THE WEEK: Quinta do Mouro Zagalos Reserva 2017, Alentejano, Portugal
£20, The Wine Society In view of the weather, I almost changed to a white wine this week, the intense, fragrant, beautifully chiselled...
Aug 26, 2021
WINE OF THE WEEK: Rui Madeira Beyra Rosé 2020, Beira Interior, Portugal
£9.95, The Wine Society In the second of my two summer rosé roundups, I applauded the more interesting textures making rosés ever more...
Aug 12, 2021
WINE OF THE WEEK: Cedro do Noval Tinto 2018, Vinho Regional Duriense, Portugal
£19.99, Cellar Door Wines, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Street Wines; £69 for 6 en primeur, Tanners Wines An inviting, approachable but...
Aug 11, 2021
Prime Time for Pink: Summer 2021 Rosé Roundup Part 2
As in part one, there's a cross-section of styles, grape varieties, origins and prices here and I'm going from high to low again, so that...
Feb 20, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Organic Douro 2017, Portugal
£10.50–£11.80, Booths, Waitrose, Davy's Wine, Tanners Wine, The Wine Shop (Knaresborough) I'd like to think that my venture into...
Mar 21, 2019
WINE OF THE WEEK: Casa Da Passarella Somontes Branco 2017, Serra da Estrela, Dão, Portugal
£11.95, Davy's Portugal isn't as known for its dry white wines, other than Vinho Verde, as it deserves to be. Dão is certainly much more...
Aug 23, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Tanners Super Douro Reserva 2015, Douro, Portugal
£14.50, Tanners Wines It was a hard choice: Tanners Côtes du Rhône, an absolute charmer from the very good 2016 vintage, or this Douro...
Aug 10, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Douro Branco 2016, Douro, Portugal
£8.50, The Wine Society I’ve been following this delicious unoaked white from the outset and each vintage more than lives up to its...
May 9, 2017
Weird and wonderful grape varieties
“Some of the wines are available in the UK; others are so rare it is unlikely that you will be able to find much literature on them,”...
Oct 29, 2016
Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?
Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...
Jun 16, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: F'Oz Dão 2013, Portugal
£9.99, Laithwaites I was going to recommend this velvety Portuguese red a while back but it was out of stock everywhere. It’s now...
Dec 24, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Graham's 10 Year Old Tawny Port
£16 (on offer), Sainsbury's Waitrose, Ocado, £19, Oddbins This is a bottle to pick up if you’re still rushing around buying last-minute...
Oct 15, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: João Portugal Ramos Vinho Verde Loureiro 2014
£7.99, cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk and Adnams stores Hear this: Portuguese wines are some of the most overlooked and underrated and you...
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