Douro

Nick on restaurants As Jancis monitored a recent family get-together in Portugal's Douro valley, Nick concentrated on what was on his plate. The...

Free for all A look at a dozen rather smart wine families who have decided that co-operation is better than competition. A shorter...

Wines of the week A detailed, complex and intensely refreshing Portuguese white from gnarly old vines high up in the Douro Valley. From €24.95...

Free for all A tonic for sherry country? A much shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. For Robert...

Tasting articles What a year Alder and family have had. Here's what (occasionally) sustained him. It’s been, as they say, something of...

Tasting articles Whether you’re in the market for 2021s and 2020s to lay down in your cellar, tawnies for tonight or ancient...

Tasting articles Another episode in our (almost) regular series of reviews of wines from Portugal. Above, winemaker Hugo Mendes poses for photographer...

Tasting articles Heartache and angst were involved in the creation of this review of deliciously diverse Portuguese wines. Earlier this year I...

Tasting articles Does South Africa lead the way in regeneration? And how about transformation…? Nearly 90 current releases reviewed. Tamlyn writes It...

Don't quote me James Mayor reports from northern Portugal on a brave attempt to solve the problems of the Douro, against which too...

Free for all The problem of disappearing vineyard workers and old-vine produce disappearing into anodyne blends. A version of this article is published...

Tasting articles Johnny Graham is celebrating 40 years of the port shipper he founded, rather against the odds. Above he is seen...

Tasting articles A demonstration of the often-unrealised potential in Portugal's Douro Valley. Tasting through every vintage of Legado, a tiny-production red from...

Free for all Later Promising young enterprise Stakhovsky Wines in Zakarpattia, western Ukraine, set up by Ukraine's top tennis player, desperately needs 36,000...

Free for all Holly Shaw sent in an introduction that went: ' Holly Shaw, DWS grew up in San Diego and moved to...

Tasting articles Portugal's most famous table wine sees the light of day, at 10 years old. Barca Velha is such an iconic...