Last week I was honoured, quite literally, by Portugal. At an early evening reception in his beautiful house in Belgrave Square, the Portuguese ambassador to London João de Vallera made me a...

The exciting if daunting responsibility of choosing 50 top Portuguese wines falls to me this year, as Jancis reported here , following in the footsteps of Tom Cannavan of wine-pages.com . This...

This is the text of a speech I was asked to give to wine producers, promoters and commentators at the Encontro e Prova Internacional de Vinho in north-eastern Portugal last month. This video...

See tasting notes on 120 fine Portuguese wines. Spanish wine may have been riding the crest of a fashionable gastronomic wave, but in many ways Portugal has more to offer the...

Below are notes on about 120 Portuguese wines of all colours - almost all of them with an interesting story to tell. There are none that I can think of that could possibly have been produced in...

To see a short, stylishly edited interview with me that was filmed at last month's Wines of Portugal International Conference in Oporto, and to hear some atmospheric Portuguese in the...

See also Good old Dão , Julia's notes on a retrospective tasting. It is so sad that top-quality Portuguese wine is not more widely known and appreciated. Admittedly, the fact that...

As I explained in What we're up to next week , I spent much of last weekend with my nose in a glass of Portuguese wine and will be reporting in more detail next month on the 100+ wines I tasted....

In a nutshell : The home of port, madeira and a host of increasingly modern, often bargain, table wines. Grapes : Rich variety of local specialities. Portugal's advantage in wine terms...

  See earlier articles about Portuguese whites here and here .     Listed below in alphabetical order of producer (sur)name are my favourites from a...

Wines of Portugal are creating a fantastic opportunity to taste a wide range of Portuguese wines - and visitors to this site can get two tickets for the price of one. Tickets are £15...

Here, in the order served, are my tasting notes on all the wines included in the fascinating tasting of Portuguese wines in D ü sseldorf in March described here .  ...

The Portuguese are taking a leaf out of the Australians’ book (see the Great Australian Wine Experience ) and are holding a consumer version of their trade tasting on the evening of...

Despite more New Year resolutions than I care to remember, I have never been able to keep a diary. Initially, I blamed my lack of self-discipline although now it is probably more pertinent to...

Just like Spain, Portugal is in the grip of a table wine revolution. But unlike Spain it has a vast collection of its own indigenous vine varieties, many of them bursting with individuality and...