My enthusiastic account of the recently declared 2011 vintage ports provoked very different responses from the two major players in the international port business. (I have yet, by the way, to...

Perhaps it's not great timing that traditionally vintage port has been declared on St George's Day, 23 April. This year anyway the launch of the 2011 vintage ports has come slap bang in the middle...

From $24.99 and £16.99 (until midnight on Monday) Find this wine Tomorrow I'll be publishing the dry white wines that make up my Top 100+. They were pretty difficult...

Usually it’s too much brandy that gives you a headache, not too little. However, the port industry is faced with a serious shortage of spirit with which to fortify its wines, according to a...

£275 Find this wine Okay, £275 a bottle is no giveaway, but have you seen what other 60-year-old wines cost? And, as someone who has tasted a range of 1952s recently, not least...

The story I'm going to tell you today started a few years ago at one of the best restaurants in Spain, Hispania, in the tourist resort of Arenys de Mar, 40 km north of Barcelona. Hispania and its...

With his left hand in plaster after a cycling mishap, Adrian Bridge of the Taylor Fladgate Partnership was in London last Friday to show off the 2009 vintage ports that they had just 'declared',...

The two major port shippers are taking very different views of 2009 as a port vintage. Adrian Bridge (pictured) of The Fladgate Partnership, owners of Taylor's, Croft and Fonseca, declared (as...

I had lunch with someone who works for J P Morgan on Friday, tasted some wines from the cellar of a captain of industry in the evening, and learnt a great deal. For a start I learned...

Port, for many of us, is inextricably related to weather. In England, it is strictly a seasonal drink, to be sipped by log fires during long nights. Not quite so many would think of a white port...

In my view, young vintage port is pretty similar to young classed-growth red bordeaux: better cellared than drunk. But mature vintage port is one of the world’s great treats, especially in the...

Last week's London tasting of the newly released crop of vintage ports, the 2007s, was held in a sort of transitional passageway at The Foreign Press Association in Carlton House Terrace. The...

In 2007 vintage ports - Part 1 Richard Hemming reported on a recent showing of these exciting new wines made by Adrian Bridge of The Fladgate Partnership (Croft, Delaforce, Fonseca, Taylor's),...

Not Nick but Jancis on food this time in fact. This Twitter/tweeting business is getting to me.  Always being asked, as you are on Twitter, to reveal 'What are you doing now?'...

See Part 2 , my notes on 36 2007 vintage ports - JR Three port companies - Fladgate, Symington and Noval - shared a room last week to declare the 2007 vintage and offer previews of...