Portugal

Inside information I love tasting wines I know absolutely nothing about. Not often but sometimes I make a great discovery. Best of...

Free for all Paul Symington (second from the left) of the Symington Family Estates, producers of Graham's, Dow's, Warre's ports et al, wrote...

Tasting articles Below are reviews of about 60 wines made respectively by the brothers Jacques and François Lurton (pictured), who were once...

Free for all What's the opposite of diversification? That's certainly what the Symington family seem set on. The Portugal-based family company that already...

Inside information Purple pagers take note. The organisers of the annual New Douro tasting in London are for the first time opening...

Tasting articles The following 88 notes were taken in the Douro in the July heat of high summer, where heavyweight reds are...

Inside information Of all the things I came across in the Douro Valley in Portugal recently – luxury yachts, gigantic ants, pink...

Tasting articles Port, for many of us, is inextricably related to weather. In England, it is strictly a seasonal drink, to be...

Free for all Portuguese wine writer Maria João de Almeida sat me down in my garden at the end of last month and...

Inside information Luís Pato, the famously idiosyncratic producer based in the Bairrada region, has been appointed vice president of the official government...

Tasting articles Here's a complement to Great wines from Portugal published earlier this week. This line up of venerable Dão wines, whites...

Wines of the week From €7.27, £7.99, 16.40 Swiss francs, $14.98, Aus$26.29, Ca$23 Find this wine This week’s wine is a seriously fine offering...

Tasting articles See also Good old Dão, Julia's notes on a retrospective tasting. It is so sad that top-quality Portuguese wine is...

Tasting articles These wines were shown at a ‘New Douro’ tasting in London at the end of October. UK importers and occasionally...

Wines of the week Find this wine. Ensaios means ‘experiments’ in Portuguese but this wine seems less an experiment – with possible connotations of...

Wines of the week Find this wine Full-bodied, oaked, perfumed whites from Portugal are not ten a penny. The highly unusual Esporão Reserva Branco...