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Strengthening US wine labelling, new EU trade deals, market reports, more bottles lighten up
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 30 January 2026
• 1 min read
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See earlier articles about Portuguese whites here and here . Listed below in alphabetical order of producer (sur)name are my...
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Wines of Portugal are creating a fantastic opportunity to taste a wide range of Portuguese wines – and visitors to...
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What stands out in this collection of 50 great Portuguese table wines chosen by my UK wine writer colleague Simon...
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Find this wine Looking for a dry white wine with real personality? One that inhabits a different firmament from that...
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Buy this wine A cheap Portuguese pink with a silly name and a screwcap? Have I taken leave of my...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also my full tasting notes...
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Here, in the order served, are my tasting notes on all the wines included in the fascinating tasting of Portuguese...
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The Portuguese are taking a leaf out of the Australians’ book (see the Great Australian Wine Experience ) and are...
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find this wine – from £4.99, $7.99 and 10.69 Swiss francs I could swear this classic Portuguese red has actually...
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Portuguese table wines are a mystery – to most non-Portuguese anyway. This is a great shame as Portugal has many...
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I went to a tasting of hundreds of exported and exportable Portuguese wines the other day and...
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Family strife is everywhere. Once confined to, but the raison d’etre of, literature, it now seems to dominate our tv...
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Just like Spain, Portugal is in the grip of a table wine revolution. But unlike Spain it has a vast...
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Long-term purple pagers will already have read my enthusiastic tasting notes on Luis Pato’s 2001s, no longer made within the...
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The port business, or as those who run it still quaintly call it, 'the port wine trade', is doing brilliantly...
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At what is arguably São Paulo's answer to Clarke's restaurant in London or Fanny's at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, the...
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