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Portuguese collection autumn 2025 – sparkling, white and rosé
What Julia does when she has (almost) finished work. The five months since my last Portuguese collections have passed in a whirl, between working on the maps of the 9th...
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 12 November 2025
• 22 min read
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Hugo Mendes, Curtimenta 2023 Lisboa
Hugo Mendes makes excellent reds but today’s star is a distinctive and accomplished Portuguese white – gold, to be more exact. This could be an ode to Arinto. From €14.95...
Julia Harding MW
Friday 12 September 2025
• 1 min read
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WWC25 – An ode to Vinhão, by Lisa Graziano
Guest contributor
Thursday 21 August 2025
• 1 min read
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Julia, having been voted Portuguese Journalist of the Year, is about to become our resident expert on all things Portuguese...
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The exciting if daunting responsibility of choosing 50 top Portuguese wines falls to me this year, as Jancis reported here...
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From €8.50, £8.25 Find this wine I have been tasting like a demon this week as London's spring tasting season...
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This is the text of a speech I was asked to give to wine producers, promoters and commentators at the...
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I am delighted to announce that in the Portuguese Wine Awards 2011 our Julia, Julia Harding MW, has been chosen...
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It's party time in Portugal and in the offices of ViniPortugal, the promotional body for Portuguese wines around the world...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See tasting notes on 120 fine...
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Below are notes on about 120 Portuguese wines of all colours – almost all of them with an interesting story...
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7 Feb – See also this thread in the forum. For Shining a light on Portugal, I wanted to find...
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I love tasting wines I know absolutely nothing about. Not often but sometimes I make a great discovery. Best of...
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Paul Symington (second from the left) of the Symington Family Estates, producers of Graham's, Dow's, Warre's ports et al, wrote...
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Below are reviews of about 60 wines made respectively by the brothers Jacques and François Lurton (pictured), who were once...
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What's the opposite of diversification? That's certainly what the Symington family seem set on. The Portugal-based family company that already...
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Purple pagers take note. The organisers of the annual New Douro tasting in London are for the first time opening...
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The following 88 notes were taken in the Douro in the July heat of high summer, where heavyweight reds are...
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Of all the things I came across in the Douro Valley in Portugal recently – luxury yachts, gigantic ants, pink...
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